MIRACULOUS ESCAPE
CAR FALLS OVER BRIDGE ACCIDENT NEAR PEKATAHI A miraculous escape from serious injury, was experienced by Mi- Walter Leonard Talbot Turley, of 5A Lake Road, Takauna, last Sunday evening - when the car he was driving crashed over the side of the Pekatahi road and rail bridge, near Taneatua, and fell twenty feet on to its hood on the dry river bed below. Neither Mr Turley or his passenger were injured. The bridge which as residents are aware is a long narrow one, has the rails running its full length. Mr Turley states that the wheels of his car, which was a rental one, struck the rails and threw the car into a skid, which he could not correct.. Some forty feet of the stout side railing was swept aside before the car finally left the bridge.
The car itself was practically wrecked though the surprising feature is that the side-windows remain intact, and the steel top enabled the two occupants to scramble out with only a few minor bruises.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 96, 19 February 1947, Page 5
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171MIRACULOUS ESCAPE Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 96, 19 February 1947, Page 5
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