MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.
CAR JUMPS OTIRA GORGE. - ONE PASSENGER INJURED. GREYMOUTH, this day. One of Messrs Clements’ motors, with seven' passengers aboard, ran offi the Otira Gorge road at the “Hairpin” bend on the zig-zag -this after noon, while proceeding to Otira. The fall of 80 feet was broken by willows. A lady passenger grasped a tree in her fall, hanging suspended till lifted down. The only injuries were sustained by Constable Baird (Cobden), who was pinned beneath the car and had his chest hurt. The car, after somersaulting, lay on the willows ten feet below the road.
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Shannon News, 16 February 1923, Page 4
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97MIRACULOUS ESCAPE. Shannon News, 16 February 1923, Page 4
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