CRASH OVER BANK
MISHAP TO AMBULANCE CORPS OFPICER KILLED (Per Press Association.) 'AUCKLAND,- last-night..- ■, A : disaster betel the -St. J<?hn ambulance. when it was proceeding from Auckland to Hunua to collect a.patjept who Mas to, be brought Jo. th<) city. The ambulance was three miles fro«i Papukura when it fell lover a bank, dropped 30ft., and then rolled 60ft.-..: (Corps Officer A. W. Potter, of (he St. John Ambulance Association, was killed outright,, and the cfeiver of tfie ambulance, Peter Hatton, received cuts on the head. Ilis condition is not serious. The ambulance, after falling ,ov T er the bank, crashed through at fence and rolled across a paddock. It came to test on its side and was much damaged, the chassis being twisted and all the glass equipment inside smashed. Corps Officer Potter was crushed beneath the vehicle.*.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17610, 28 October 1931, Page 10
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