MAN’S WILD DRIVE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18366, 7 April 1934, Page 15

MAN’S WILD DRIVE

IN STOLEN CAR A young Feilding man who convented a ear to his own use in Hunterville succeeded in doing quite a considerable 'amount of damage and coming close to 'breaking his neck before he was apprehended. The ear stolen was Mr J. M.- Abel’s, and it was removed from the main street and driven off in the direction of Mr T. A. Duncan’s homestead, “Otairi.” 'The driver met with some trouble on route, leaving - the road at one corner, but succeeded in righting the car. At the entrance to “Otairi,” he ‘apparently mistook the drive leading up to the homestead for the main road, and speeding at ;"0 miles an hour .he dashed into the garage, crashing .into one of Mr Duncan’s cars. So great was the force of the impact that the latter vehicle was thrown forward into a horse-float, which in turn crashed through tiie back of the big shed. Mr Abel’s car was badly damaged, but Mr Duncan’s fared even worse, being wrecked almost beyond repair. The horse-float also suffered damage. The driver escaped with two cuts. He was placed under arrest, and was subsequently committed to the Pori run Mental Hospital.