CAR ACCIDENT
J- man loses A LEG.’ 7 : : (By Telegraph—Per Press Association.)
CHRISTCHURCH, Jan, 8
A rfe mark able accident occurred at the foot-,of Hackthorne Road, Cashmere Hills, this evening, when a motor ear .containing four men carried away a heavy wooden post : rail fence, and dived over a 16ft. bank. The car was impaled .upon'a section of the threeinch railing, which pierced the radiator and. the ..bodywork of the vehicle from end-to end. .The car landed on .its side in .a right; Of way at the foot of the. slope.- Only one occupant was seriously .hurt, Capt. (1. Bowen, of Mimupt,- an officer of the Defence Department. --He has had to- have his righ-t: i.ejss amputated. The others escaped with, slight injuries/- 1
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Hokitika Guardian, 9 January 1930, Page 3
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