TWO ACCIDENTS
MOTOR RUNS AMOK >i’| : iDRIVER DISAPPEARS r t.*:t* r vr.(Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND,- -this day. A sensational motor smash occurred in Mt. Eden road early this morning. A two-seater car, driven by a man in evening clothes, overturned, ran backwards, and crashed into the side of a house, smashing the windows of one room.
The driver was slightly injured, but later disappeared. lie is being sought by the police.
It is believed that the same car was involved in another accident a lew minutes earlier, when it man was knocked down and injured. The driver, although warned to stop, drove on.
A constable who heard the crash of the car, riished along the road to a taxi, but valuable time was lost, because the taxi-driver was sound asleep. .The constable then found Robert Done, 30, lying stretched on the roadway, having been knocked from a cycle. His injuries are not serious.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18203, 26 September 1933, Page 9
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153TWO ACCIDENTS Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18203, 26 September 1933, Page 9
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