AMAZING ESCAPE
GISBORNE MANS FALL INJURIES NOT DANGEROUS COAST TRAGEDY SEQUEL (Special to tho Herald.) OPOTIKI, this day. The escape of Mr. Edward Henry Hitchiner, aged 20, driver of the car which last night toppled from the Coast road a few miles from Opotiki with four occupants, crashing to the rocks below, is considered the most remarkable feature of a tragedy which cost the lives of his three companions.
The cliff over which the car plunged is almost sheer, and the machine is believed to have fallen direct on to the rocks, at least 300 ft. lown. Yet Mr. Hitchiner crawled out of the driver's seat and managed to dnd his way buck to the road, his inIdnes being painful but not dangerous.
Mr. Hitchiner is in hospital in OpouHi, but his condition is such that the superintendent does not consider it necessary to call Mr. Hitchiner's lather urgently from Gisborne. There ■s a good prospect of his early recovery from the effects of the accident, the most serious of which, in his jase, appears to be a fracture of the arm.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19821, 24 December 1938, Page 7
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182AMAZING ESCAPE Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19821, 24 December 1938, Page 7
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