CAR WRECKED

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 210, 24 November 1927, Page 11

CAR WRECKED

CRASHED THROUGH FENCE OWNER’S NARROW ESCAPE Evidently Mr. P. S. K. Mason, of 172 Parnell Road, has nine lives. At 4 o’clock this morning his car crashed through a corrugated iron fence in Boston Road, carrying away a long length of the fence and rolled down a 16-foot bank. TI/TR. MASON emerged from his car when it arrived at the bottom of the bank. He is suffering from injuries to his back and hips, but he is not seriously hurt. The car, a three-seater Buick, is badly wrecked. The tyre was torn from the right front wheel, the mudguards and the body-work are broken and bent,- the windscreen is splintered and other parts of the car are badlybroken. To-day the car was still lying on its side at the bottom of the bank behind the offices of the Waipa Coal Company. Evidently, from the marks on the road, Mr. Mason was driving down Nugent Street, which ends in Boston Road, right opposite where the car went through the fence. There are marks on the road as though the car had turned too late. It must have jumped over the footpath, and nosed its way through the fence. A totara post, which supported the fence, has been snapped like a carrot, and the pieces of corrugated iron are lying on the bank among the gorse. Mr. Mason had a marvellous escape, as the car must have turned over as it went down the bank. There were no [other passengers in the car.