CYCLIST BREAKS LEG.
IN COLLISION WITH CAR
As a result of colliding with a motor car at Shannon, a motorcvcli.'i named Arthur Gilhraiisen, a newspaper runner, was admitted to the Palmerston North Hospital on Thursday evening suffering from a broken leg.
The injured man was cycling to I’ackakariki, and was travelling up the second hill past Shannon at aImii ll -I.tit) p.m. A Palmerston North car came round a sharp bend in the road, and in endeavouring to cross further jo his left side to permit of ■|„ passage, the cyclist had his leg forcibly struck and broken by the buffer of the oncoming vehicle. The cyclist retained his seat, and his machine plunged towards the edge of the cliff. With great presence of mind, lie threw himself off the ■ vide, which lodged in the fence, and just avoided a seventy-foot fall. Some difficulty was experienced in securing a doctor, but Dr. Mackerel In of Shannon, was eventually obtained, and the. “Limited” express being stopped at, Shannon, iho sufferer was removed to Palmerston North and the Hospital.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2884, 16 May 1925, Page 3
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176CYCLIST BREAKS LEG. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2884, 16 May 1925, Page 3
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