SHOCKING ACCIDENT.
MAN’S NECK DISLOCATED. WALKS, AND CYCLES FIVE MILE'S. ■OPOTIKI, July 20'. A shocking accident occurred on the Waioeka Road, fifteen miles inland from Opotifcl. Mr Jack Donnelly was cycling from Oponae towards the town with a companion named Woodside when he fell thirty feet over a bank, struck a rotk and then fell inttoi the river. Mr Woodside helped ihm out, after which he walked and cycled for five mile's, when he picked up by a motorist and taken to! the Opotiki Hospital. In the hospital it was fdund that Mr Donnelly had a fractured skull and a dislocated neck, in addition to bad cuts behind the ears.
He is reported to-day to be as well as can be expected.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 5003, 21 July 1926, Page 2
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122SHOCKING ACCIDENT. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 5003, 21 July 1926, Page 2
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