MOTOR SMASH
SENSATIONAL ACCIDENT. DRIVER DISAPPEARS. AUCKLAND, Tuesday. A sensational motor smash occurred in Mount Eden Road early this morning. A two-seater car driven by a man in evening clothes, overturned and crashed into the side of a house, smashing the windows of one room. The driver, who was slightly injured, later disappeared, and is being sought by the police. It is believed that the same car was involved in another accident a few minutes earlier, when a man was knocked down and injured. The driver, although warned to stop, drove on. A constable who heard the crash of the car, rushed along the road to a taxi, but valuable time was lost because the taxi driver was sound asleep. The constable then found a man named Robert Done, 'aged 30, lying stretched on the roadway, having, been knocked from a bicycle. His injuries are not serious. —(P.A.)
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 27 September 1933, Page 5
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148MOTOR SMASH Wairarapa Daily Times, 27 September 1933, Page 5
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