MOTOR-CAR CAPSIZED
FALL DOAVN SEVENTY-FOOT EM-
BANKMENT. By Telegraph—Press Association. Otaki, June 20. A motor-car containing a party capsized over a seventyr-foot embankment . in Otaki Gorge yesterday. Miss Joplin was badly injured, the others were severely shaken. Further details of the accident have been received by Mr. Joplin, of Wads'town. There were four occupants of the car and they were oil thrown over a cliff 100 feet high. Miss Mildred Joplin was the most severely injured, sustaining severe concussion of the brain and other injuries. She was sfill unconscious last night, and had been attended by Dr. Hardwick Smith. The other occupants of the car escapejl with a severe shaking. The car was driven by Mr. C. H. Joplin, an experienced driver. Mr. Joplin was driving slowly round a corner when the wheels of the. car got into a rut which sent the car over the cliff, which is unfenced at the place where, the accident occurred.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 228, 21 June 1921, Page 4
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157MOTOR-CAR CAPSIZED Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 228, 21 June 1921, Page 4
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