CAR LEAPS INTO LAGOON

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 62, 7 December 1926, Page 10

CAR LEAPS INTO LAGOON

OCCUPANTS’ NARROW ESCAPE Dominion Special. Nelson, December 6. An accident which jeopardised the lives of two women happened near Cauvastown, on the Nelson-Blenheim main road, yesterday, when a light car driven by Sister Dundon, of the Havelock Cottage Hospital, with Nurse I. Sullivan as" a passenger, dived into a deep lagoon alongside the road. The car was submerged in about 15 feet of water. ... - Mr. L. Smith, of Havelock, leaped into the water, but became entangled in some willow branches and could not free himself until assisted. Mr. Stevenson, of Nelson, was motoring with some friends, who were on the spot when the accident happened. He quicklv entered the water and rescued both the women, who had somehow shot clear of the submerged car, and were struggling on the surface. Miss Sullivan was little the worse for her wetting, but Sister Dundon was unconscious when brought from the water, and did not respond to resuscitation for some time. She is suffering from shock, and also had her left hand badly lacerated. Mr. Stevenson’s prompt action averted what would otherwise have been an almost certain fatality.