CAR SOMERSAULTS
STEERING-GEAR DAMAGED
-'al to tlie "Evening Post.")
PALMERSTON N., This. Day.
To somersault down an 80ft bank and finish up iri a very precarious position overlooking another big drop to the stream bed below, was the unenviable experience of Mr. 11. Fisher, jun., of Makuri, who, with a lady passenger, came to grief in a sedan car on the Pori Hill road ou Sunday evening.
Mr. Fisher was on his way home from Alfredton, and as he was proceeding along the rather narrow, twisty road, the car struck a large rock, which damaged the steering gear and caused the car to career across the road and down the bank. The car turned over several times in its fall, and finally came to rest on a projecting portion of the cliff face. It had crashed through a fence on its day down the slope and one strand of wire became enmeshed in the body. It was due to this wire holding that the car did not go the remaining distance into the creek below. The doors were so damaged that they could not'be opened, and the driver and his passenger had to crawl out through the sliding panel severe shaking and bruising.
in the roof. They were fortunate in escaping with nothing worse than a
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 1, 2 January 1936, Page 10
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216CAR SOMERSAULTS Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 1, 2 January 1936, Page 10
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