Runaway Car Dashes Down Parnell Rise
CHILD OCCUPANT HURT MIRACULOUS ESCAPE A motor-car parked at the top of Parnell Rise, with no one in it except a three-year-old girl, slipped away yesterday afternoon and, dashing down the hill, crashed ■ into a concrete wall and was finally stopped by a telegraph pole. The child escaped with nothing worse than a broken collar-bone, owner of the car, Mr. P. Horne, of Herne Pay, had parked it outside the Mayfair Flats. Almost as soon as he KOI out, however, the «ar began to move, taking the turn neatTy and swiftly gathering speed down the hill. The owner did his best to catch it, but was too late. : It shot down the hill and, as it neared the lane which leads to Carlaw Park, swerved, left the road and crashed into the wall of a concrete building on the corner. It slid off across the pavement and finally hit a telegraph pole on the kerb. The child passenger was taken out and brought into a nearby house. Hater she was taken to a doctor, who discovered that her collarbone was fractured.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 725, 26 July 1929, Page 11
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187Runaway Car Dashes Down Parnell Rise Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 725, 26 July 1929, Page 11
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