CAR HITS POLE
NEW PLYMOUTH IN DARKNESS. DRIVER NOT SERIOUSLY HURT. (Per "United Press Association.) New Plymouth, May 26. When a car driven by G. L. Coles, oil driller, crashed into an electric light pole to-night, the fact was widely advertised, for every light in New Plymouth was extinguished. Dazzling flashes of electricity played about the damaged pole, and astonished people considerable distances away, who had been attracted by the crash of the impact and the weird light of the electric flashes. Coles was found unconscious in his car, but he recovered sufficiently to walk to the ambulance. Coles, who came to New Plymouth from Mexico, was reported late to-night to be apparently not seriously hurt. The light in some sections of the town "was not restored for an hour.
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Southland Times, Issue 21093, 27 May 1930, Page 7
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130CAR HITS POLE Southland Times, Issue 21093, 27 May 1930, Page 7
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