SENSATIONAL PLUNGE.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20625, 28 May 1935, Page 3

SENSATIONAL PLUNGE.

Two Men Escape When Car Dives From Bridge. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, May 27. With an impact heard half a mile away a touring car out of control on the overhead railway bridge near the intersection of Dominion Road and Eden Terrace crashed through the right hand railings of the bridge and plunged 30ft to the foot of the railway embankment below. The vehicle somersaulted in mid-air and came to rest, smashed to matchwood, on its right side. The occupants, John Hardwick, aged 67, married, of Mount Eden, and Vincent Astell, aged 29, married, of Mount Eden, suffered head injuries. Their condition is not considered serious. In the opinion of bj-standers they had a narrow escape from death. The car, which was travelling along Dominion Road, was driven by Astell and was involved in a collision with a sedan car proceeding in the opposite direction. The vehicles became interlocked a few yards below the crown of the bridge, and the touring car suddenly slewed round and skidded across the wooden decking to the right, mounted the footpath, and carried away eight feet of the railings as it fell.