CAR’S WILD CAREER
ELDERLY MAN INJURED JAMMED AGAINST WALL (Per Press Association.) , PALMERSTON N., this day. An elderly man, who has not been identified, is at present in, hospital in danger of losing his life as a result of a car’s wild career in Main street yesterday afternoon. The mishap is surrounded by unusual circumstances. The driver of the car, Robert George Leydon, a salesman, of Te Kuiti, in order to avoid a boy on a bicycle who was about to cross his tracks, swerved to the right. The car then became unmanageable, shot on the footpath, and gathering speed, jammed an elderly man against the brick frontage of a factory, and shot back to the road again to graze a parked car on the opposite side of the road before being brought to a standstill.
Other pedestrians managed to jump out of the way of the car, but the man *
unfortunately had his back to it. He was unconscious when picked up, and was bleeding, from the ears.
The boy on the bicycle had his clothes torn, but sintered no bodily injury.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19240, 4 February 1937, Page 4
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183CAR’S WILD CAREER Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19240, 4 February 1937, Page 4
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