MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.
MOTORIST FALLS HUNDRED FEET IN CAR. SUFFERS MINOR INJURIES ONLY. MARTON, January 20. A miraculous escape was experienced yesterday morning by Walter Manning, a well-known stock buyer, when he was returning to Marton from Turakina Valley in a car. On a narrow portion of the road he met another car and in endeavouring to pass it went over the bank, crashing through a scrub fence and dropping 100 feet into the Makohau Stream below, his car coming to rest upside down. By a lucky chance the car’s progress was checked at the last moment, and, instead of entering the deep water sideon, it straddled the bank out of the water sufficiently to allow Mr. Manning to escape through a window. He was assisted to the road by the other motorists and was brought to Marton, suffering from shock and only minor injuries. The salvage of the car will present considerable difficulties. — (P.A.) .
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Wairarapa Age, 21 January 1936, Page 7
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