IMPALED' ON RAILING
j CAR CRASHES OVER BANK DRIVER LOSES RIGHT LEG Press Association j CHRISTCHURCH. Wednesday. A remarkable accident occurred at the foot of Hackthorne Road. Cashmere Hills, this evening, when a motor-car containing four men carj lied away a heavy wooden post-and- | rail fence and dived over a 16-foot j bank. The car was impaled upon a section of the three-inch railing, which • pierced the radiator and bodywork ! of the vehicle from end to end. The car landed on its side in a i right-of-way at the foot of the slope, i Only one occupant, Captain Bowen, of ; Sumner, an officer of the Defence Department, was seriously injured. He had to have his right leg amputated, i The other occupants escaped with ! slight injuries.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/SUNAK19300109.2.150
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 866, 9 January 1930, Page 16
Word count
Tapeke kupu
126IMPALED' ON RAILING Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 866, 9 January 1930, Page 16
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Sun (Auckland). You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in