AEROPLANE CRASHES
WELL-KNOWN RACING MOTORIST INJURED. (Per United Press Association.) PALMERSTON NORTH, January 22. A narrow escape from death was experienced this morning by Percy Coleman, the racing motorist and aviator. At the commencement of an aeroplane flight to Ashhurst, where he was to compete at the motor sports, he crashed to the ground with his machine, sustaining cuts and other injuries to his face and eye. A witness of the accident says that the machine left the shed at Wilson’s Line, and ran along the paddock to take-off. The aeroplane rose from the ground to about 20 feet, and then crashed through the telegraph and electric supply wires, and fell nose first. Coleman was assisted to a nearby house and was then taken to town. His injuries were not severe enough to need hospital treatment.
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Southland Times, Issue 19458, 24 January 1925, Page 15
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