SHEER DROP OF 100 FEET.
MOTOR-CAR ACCIDENT. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) Woodvillo, November 1. A rather serious accident occurred in the Mauawatu Gorge this afternoon v. iicn a went lijjht over and landed in the river. Only the driver was. in : tiie car, but unfortunately he was rather badly injured. The accident happened while the express to Napier was passing through the gorge, and several persons on the train witnessed. the occurrence. A telephone t message was sent' from the gorge to ' Ashhurst and also to Woodville. The Ashhunst contingent was first on the scene. The name of the man in charge of the ear is Taylor and he is employed by Messrs. Barraud and Abraham, of Palmerston. He was taking the car from Carterton to Palmeraton. Something must have gone wrong with the steering gear for no effort had been made to negotiate the sharp corner and the car went over the bank, a sheer drop of nearly one hundred feet. Taylor managed to crawl on to the road where ho was fouid in a dazed condition, having severe wounds on, the forehead. The injured man was taken on to Palmerston. The car is now under water and tethered to the bank by a wire.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 963, 2 November 1910, Page 6
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205SHEER DROP OF 100 FEET. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 963, 2 November 1910, Page 6
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