STRANGE ACCIDENT.

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2385, 15 February 1915, Page 7

STRANGE ACCIDENT.

fMOTOR-CAR BLOWN OVER BANK. After some days of calm, a high wind rput in its appearance hero on Satur.day evening. It buffeted the. housetops, and played upon lie telegraph wires, and sung through the trees all night, and morning found it still abroad. It lashed itself into a fury all tihe forenoon, and by mid-day was a lighgale, , Oriental Bay and Roseneatfh. caught "the full force of the angry gale. About 3 o'clock in the afternoon a party of 'two men and a woman, who had teen -motoring round the Queen's Drive, had ia most extraordinary experience at tihe lands of the wind. To round Magazine Point, which is not far from Oriental Bay, the car was set at a high speed, as the driver was aware' that he would get the blow at its worst just at that corner. Up to the corner flew the car at a great pace, and then it was - simply lifted bodily off the roadway and dropped on to the rocks about five yards over the edge of the bank.No one was hurt, and the car was not damaged. A little later a police officer appear <ed on the scene, and he inquired of the one man left" at the . scene where the woman of the party was. "She went back to .town," said tie motorist. "Which way?" asked the-constable. "Kilbirnie way." "Why did she go the long way, when (Oriental Bay is just round the corner?"

"She couldn't get round t'he blooming corner." -

'Presently a man went by on a bicycle. His pace is described as the greatest ever gathered by any cyclist in the history of wheeling. "For a moment you could not tell that it was a cyclist; it looked more like an aeroplane," said one who was in the vicinity. "There was just a streak of man and bike, and for some distance they never touched the ground." Later in t'he afternoon the exaggerated zephr quietened down, and by evening could not be called a gale.