RIGHT ARM TORN OFF
Taxi Driver’s Fortitude (PA) AUCKLAND, October 17. Remarkable fortitude was shown by a taxi-driver, Arthur Raynor Lowe, aged 46, married, of King’s View road, Mount Eden, who had his right arm dismembered above the elbow as a result of a blow from the overhang or a passing truck at Penrose tonight. Lowe was driving two fares out to Otahuhu and when the accident occurred he turned to his passengers and casually remarked that his arm had been tO A tourniquet was applied to the arm and Lowe was then driven back to the city by a passenger of an incoming bus, which had been stopped. On arrival at the admitting department of the Auckland hospital Lowe walked into the office unaided and gave particulars of the accident beiore being taken to a ward. His condition late tonight was considered fairly satisfactory, although he is suffering from shock.
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Southland Times, Issue 24877, 17 October 1942, Page 4
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151RIGHT ARM TORN OFF Southland Times, Issue 24877, 17 October 1942, Page 4
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