SENSATIONAL MISHAP.
CAR CARRIES AWAY BRIDGE RAILS. (Per Press Association.) DANNEVIRKE, April 16. Rather a sensational motor mishap occurred early on Sunday morning, when a car containing Ivan L. Jvign, a young airman who was in the recent forced landing at New Brighton, and L. Cowan were proceeding south from Dannevirlce, crashed into the side of the bridge at .Rawhiti Street. The high-powered Packard stripped the whole side of the protecting rails and traversed the structure with two wheels on it and two wheels over the edge of the bridge, which is 30ft long, over a creek 30ft below. But for the outside wheels bumping the projecting stay planks the car must have toppled over. It went a couple of chains beyond the bridge before it was pulled up. It then caught fire. Neither of the occupants was hurt, but the car was extensively damaged.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17017, 16 April 1923, Page 7
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