MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.
SENSATIONAL MOTOR ACCIDENT. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WAN GAN Cl, Wednesday. A . sensational motor ear accident, and a. miraculous .escape of the driver, occurred about twelve miles up tllu Wanganui River yesterday. W. Tennant, a Wanganui taxi-driver, was motoring along the bank in the vicinity of the starting point of the rowing championship course, lie had just dropped some passengers, and was turning round, when the wheels of the car became locked, and the engine began to race. The car leaped completely over the bank, and dropped 150 ft, turning a couple- of somersaults in the air, and depositing Tennant on a ledge only two feet wide. The car then again leapt, and dropped into the bed of the river. The total d,rop is estimated at 300 ft. Tennant escaped with a few bruises.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 46, Issue 14127, 27 May 1920, Page 6
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