FELL ASLEEP
DANGERS OF DRIYING WEN OVERTIRED. The danger of driving a car when very tired was brought home some- . what f orcibly to a local resident the other night, when he was returnlng through the Waimana Gorge from the Whakatane Sliow. The driver of the car fell asleep over the wheel for a moinent and the- car ran off the road; fortunately it strubk the bank instead of the river, but the passenger, who was also asleep, was th,rown forward and cut his head just above the eye." The car suffered damage to the : front axle, but was able to proceed to Opotiki, the previous passenger in the driving seat.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 253, 17 June 1932, Page 7
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