CRASH OVER BANK
MOTOR CAR WRECKED. OCCUPANTS’ NARROW ESCAPE. (Per United Press Association.) Wellington, December 12. Crashing through a fence on the new Khandallah road shortly before noon today, a sedan car with three passengers hurtled down an almost perpendicular bank for sixty feet, tearing out half the end of a boiling down works and stripping the body clean off the chassis which turned completely over and took fire. A traffic constable arrived in time to see the driver, Norman Guscott, aged 16, climb from underneath the chassis, very dazed; otherwise not much hurt. The two passengers, Louie Guscott, aged 13, and Stewart Johnston, aged 17, who remained in the actual body of the car, received abrasions and suffered severely from shock. One of the boys quenched the flames with a bucket of water from a nearby tank. Guscott said that the car skidded at a bend.
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Southland Times, Issue 21576, 14 December 1931, Page 7
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