ALIVE WITH BROKEN NECK

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16210, 7 December 1926, Page 5

ALIVE WITH BROKEN NECK

Mr. Leslie W. Sutherland, a flying officer from Dvintroon Colloge, in the Australian Federal Territory, is one of the lucky few to break his neck and escape, not only death, but any serious permanent injury. A week or two ago Sutherland was involved in an aviation accident at Duntroon, and received an injury to the neck which was regarded with interest by the local medical men. Ho was sent to Sydney by train with his neck in a plaster jacket to prevent movement. An X-ray examination at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, revealed that his first and second vertebrae were broken. As a: rule, a broken neck means instant death, or, at least, total paralysis, but Sutherland escaped with nothing more than a pain in the neck, lie is now lying Hat on his back, with his head between sandbags, waiting for the broken bones to knit. It is probable that he will make a complete recovery, with the exception, perhaps, of a stiff neck.