RUN OVER TWICE BY OWN CAR
SYDNEY. Mr. W. Cookson, of West Blowering, a 70-year-old fa~mer and grazier, was involved in an unusual accident when he was run down twice by his own car. - He was hand-cranking the- vehicle, which had been left in low gear, when tbe engine started and the car ran him down. The car's steering gear also had been left on one lock, and while Mr. Cookson was" still lying on the ground the car completed a circle and ran over him again. Mr. Cookson^ is in 'hospital with a broken foot aiicl abrasions.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5325, 11 February 1947, Page 6
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