POLICE CAR OVERTURNS
A DETECTIVE INJURED [ Per Press Association. ] AUCKLAND, Nov. 17. A large police car containing two detectives, a constable, and a man who had been charged at Thames with issuing valueless cheques, overturned at Pope’s Corner, Maungatawhiri, at about midnight. Detective F. Brady, of Auckland, was seriously injured. The party was returning from Thames. Constable Lilly, Auckland, was driving. Detective Brady was in the front seat, while in the back were Detective Whillans and Ivan Huia Bicknell, who had appeared in Court during the day. At the point where the accident occurred the road is undergoing reconstruction, and as the car rounded the bend it skidded in loose metal and toppled over a bank about four feet high, Detective Brady being thrown through the roof. Detective Whillans escaped injury and attended to the injured men until a car containing a Pokeno party came along and drove them to Pokeno, where the ambulance was summoned to take Detective Brady and Bicknell to Auckland. The others returned in the police car. Detective Brady’s condition was reported this afternoon to be serious. Bicknell, who was also taken to hospital, is not in a serious condition.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 274, 18 November 1937, Page 9
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