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TO SENSATIONAL ACCIDENT. (I’er Press Association—Copyright). AUCKLAND, September 27. As a sequel to a sensational accident in Parnell on July 7th, when two ca r . s collided and Robert Burns, way was a /passenger in one, had hies neck pierced by a steel curtain rod, trie arivei of one car. Airmen to Thorne George, was prosecuted to-day on a rtm-.-jre of negligent driving, and failing to give way. The police wj.lulrew the first charge ami defendant pleaded guilty to the second. Her counsel said the facts wore less serious thn-n might appear. Bums had been discharged from t>*<e hospital. The degree of negligence should not be judged by the extent of the man’s 'injuries. Defendant 'was fined £2 and costs. I Burns made a remarkable recovery. (Before he could be taken to the lios-1 pital- the rod had to he sawn from the base by a hack-saw. At the hospital the -rest of the rod was withdrawn by a surgeon and a tube inserted to enable him to breathe meanwhile.
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 September 1933, Page 6
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172A SEQUEL Hokitika Guardian, 27 September 1933, Page 6
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