WHAT A CAR WILL STAND

Otaki Mail, 9 April 1923, Page 3

WHAT A CAR WILL STAND

Thus the jM.Z. Farmer in referring to a recent accident at Otuki:— A few weeks ago a motorist, in negotiating a turn on to a bridge on the main road near Otuki, underestimated his speed, with the result that instead of crossing the bridge the car crashed through the railing - and landed in the creek-bed upside down. Fortunately, the driver was one of thelucky sort, for, although he and two of the lady passengers were pinned underneath the car, none of them was seriously injured. The car was left in the creek for a couple of days, and was then taken out and railed to Wellington —apparently a hopeless wreck. The steering wheel was knocked olf, one of the front wheels was damaged, and the chassis was badly knocked and twisted. Wings and running boards were torn off. and one of the bridge posts went through the radiator. I When the wreck was taken oil the

train, ilie motor engineer to whom the job was entrusted was surprised to see that the engine and running parts were not affected, and further examination showed that there was a possibility that the ear would run under her own power to the repair shop. Upon starting her up, the engine ran as sweetly as ever, and apparently suffered nothing from Ilie force of the impact. The ear in question was one of the steam cars recently imported into Hew Zealand, and after this jterrible bump i one might have expected'the whole out- j lit to blow up; strange to say, every i joint in the steam pipes were intact, j I sad the engine, which is well tucked j away, was not even strained. , 1