MOTOR CARS AFIRE
COLLISION ON HUTT ROAD OCCUPANTS' LUCKY ESCAPE [Pbr United Peess Association.] WELLINGTON, September 13. Three people had a miraculous escape from serious injury or death when one motor car hit the back of another and both took fire on the Hutt road shortly after 7 o’clock last evening. The cars were totally destroyed, but the only hurt the occupants suffered was minor injury to two passengers in the second car, the driver of which escaped. A car, owned and driven by James Perrett, of Newtown, was coming along Hutt road from Petone into Wellington when the car suddenly developed engine trouble and stopped. Perrett set off to walk to a service station when a second car, also travelling southward, crashed into the back of the other car. Fire immediately broke out, and the strong northerly wind which was blowing fanned the flames, so that in a matter of seconds the two cars were the centre of an inferno. The three occupants of the second car scrambled out before the flames reached them.
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Evening Star, Issue 22443, 14 September 1936, Page 13
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175MOTOR CARS AFIRE Evening Star, Issue 22443, 14 September 1936, Page 13
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