MOTOR COLLISION
CARS CATCH ALIGHT.
WELLINGTON, Sunday. ( Three people had a miraculous escape from serious injury or death when one motor ear hit the back of another and both took fire on the Ilutt Road, shortly after 7 o’clock last evening. The cars were totally destroyed and the only hurt the occupants suffered were minor injuries to two passengers in the second car, the driver of which escaped injury.
A car, owned and driven by Janies Perrett, of Newtown, was coming along the Hutt Road from Petone into Wellington when the ear suddenly developed engine trouble and slopped. Perrett set off to walk to a service station. The second car, also travelling southward, crashed into the back of the other car with a resounding crash. 'A fire immediately broke out and a strong northerly wind which was blowing fanned the flames so that in a matter of seconds the two cars were the centre of an inferno.
The three occupants of the second car scrambled out before the flames reached them. —(P.A.)
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 14 September 1936, Page 5
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