MOTOR ACCIDENT.
CAR OVERTURNS, MISHAP ON THAMES ROAD. Shortly after 8 o’clock last night a motor-car, driven by Mr Bert Willie, traveller for Messrs J. T. Woods and Co., Auckland, and containing three other passengers, capsized near Messrs Robson Bros.’ farm on Thames Road while proceeding to Maratoto. Owing to heavy rain the visibility was poor, and, in attempting to open the windscreen, the vehicle got too close to the edge of the road, which was of soft clay, with the result that the side gave way and the car turned over, landing upside down, and came to rest against a wire fence. The driver was pinned underneath, and it was only with difficulty that he was extricated by members of the party and near-by residents. Fortunately he was not injured beyond abrasions and bruises.
One of the passengers, however, did not escape so lightly, and sustaind a badly sprained wrist. The other passengers had a miraculous escape nothing worse than bruises being sustained. The damage sustained by the car included a broken windscreen, hood, and the right-hand side running board and mudguard. t
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5172, 31 August 1927, Page 2
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184MOTOR ACCIDENT. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5172, 31 August 1927, Page 2
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