CAR OVERTURNS
ACCIDENT ON MAT AT A ROAD PASSENGER IN HOSPITAL As the result of the car in which he was travelling overturning, Robert Derwin, aged 18, an employee • of the Paper Mills, was admitted to the Whakatane Hospital on Sunday night. The driver of the car, Mr Glen Hayclen, suffered cuts and 'bruises about the head and chest, but after treatment he was able to proceed home. Messrs Hayden and Derwin were returning to Whakatane from Tauranga, and when negotiating a bend in the road about four miles on the Whakatane side of Matata, the car, -an old model 6-cylinder two-seater tourer, turned a complete somersault. The hood and windscreen were wrecked but otherwise the car appears to be undamaged. Mr Derwin sustained a cut on the "head and slight internal injuries. His condition is reported to be not serious.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 97, 6 December 1939, Page 5
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141CAR OVERTURNS Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 97, 6 December 1939, Page 5
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