BREATH-TAKING RIDE
car GETS OUT OF CONTROL. MOTORISTS ESCAPE UNHURT. Two motorists had a breath-taking ride about noon on Saturday when the tierod fell.from the steering gear at the bottom of the long hill on Carrington Road, New Plymouth. With the wheel useless in the driver's hands, the car started on a mad'career through a hedge and over a bank. Both men escaped injury. The car, a five-seater tourer belonging to the Farmers’ Co-operative Organisation Society’s garage, was being driven down Carrington Road at a moderate speed when it suddenly got out of control and left the road at a fairly gentle angle. Bumping on to the footpath for about 15 yards, it raced along beside a low hedge surmounting a 15-feet bank and squeezed between it and a telegraph pole with about six inches to spare on each side. As it touched the hedge a few yards further on the car swung round violently and plunged half over the bank. There it stopped, its undercarriage stuck on the top of the bank, its left mudguard rammed against a ponga tree and its right mudguard a foot clear of a concrete water sump. Shaken but unmarked, the two occupants climbed out. They were Messrs. R. Stephens, a motor- mechanic, and A. Long, his assistant. - -
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Taranaki Daily News, 19 August 1935, Page 7
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