STOICAL TAXI-DRIVER
Arm Torn Off By Passing Truck (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) ■ ■ AUCKLAND, October 16. Remarkable fortitude was shown by a taxi-driver —Mr. Arthur Raynor Lowe, aged 46. married, of King’s View Road, Mount Eden—who had his right arm dismembered above the elbow' as a result of a blow from the overhang of a passing truck at Penrose tonight. Mr, Lowe was driving two fares out to Otahuhu, and when the accident occurred he turned to his passengers before stopping his cab, and casually remarked that his arm had been torn off. A torniquet was applied to the arm, and Mr. Lowe was then driven back to the city by a passenger on an incoming bus which had been stopped. On arrival at the admitting department of Auckland Hospital. Mr. Lowe walked into the office unaided, and gave particulars of the accident, before being taken to a ward. Mr. Lowe’s condition late tonight was considered to be fairly satisfactory, though he was suffering from shock.
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Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 19, 17 October 1942, Page 8
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164STOICAL TAXI-DRIVER Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 19, 17 October 1942, Page 8
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