A PECULIAR ACCIDENT
TO A WELLINGTON MOTOR CYCLIST. A most remarkable accident hefol a Wellington - resident recently whilst motor-cycling along the Johnsonville*. Ohariu ißoad. The machine was travelling at a'moderate pace up-hill when it skidded a few feet, but without a fall being registered the rider's foot oauglit in a projection from the bank and twisted it right round. For the moment the rider was hardly aware that he had been hurt, but feeling a numbness stealing over tho limb, he jumped off his machine on the injured leg,- and .at once collapsed. On examination it was found that the leg had. been broken about four inches above the ankle, the ankle itself"was dislocated, and on 4 of the small bones of the ankle brokon.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2581, 1 October 1915, Page 10
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125A PECULIAR ACCIDENT Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2581, 1 October 1915, Page 10
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