ON CLIFF EDGE
MOTOR COLLISION AT DANGEROUS BEND. [ Per Press Association. J DUNEDIN, Dec. 19. A collision occurred on the Dun-edin-Brighton Road this afternoon, when a motor-cycle crashed into a car driven by Stanley Charles Gillen on a dangerous bend. The rider of the cycle, Colin Gray Cook, tried to pass a car which was proceeding to Brighton on the bend and collided with another car coming in the opposite direction. Mark Cook, the rider’s brother, single, residing at Caversham, was a passenger on the machine, and he received a broken right femur, being admitted to the Dunedin Hospital at 5 o’clock. The rider of lhe cycle escaped with abrasions to a leg. On one in the car was hurt, but the passengers had a remarkable escape from serious injury as the driver, in an attempt to avoid the cycle, pulled within an inch or two of a 100 ft. cliff.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 301, 20 December 1937, Page 9
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151ON CLIFF EDGE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 301, 20 December 1937, Page 9
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