CAR LEAVES HIGHWAY
JUMPS DITCH NINE FEET WIDE AND FIVE DEEP A high-powered sporting saloon car was severely damaged when it left the Taupo-Rotorua highway at a bend on the Taupo side of the Ohaki turn-cff, about three o'clock on Thursday afternoon last. Mr Norman Ward, employed by Goodsonq Ltd., telephoned advice of the accident from Wairakei to the Taupo Police and St. John Ambulance. By the time the ambulance, Dr. Richards and Constable Mills reached the scene the occupants of the wrecked car had already been taken to Rotorua^ Tracks left by the car showed that after leaving the road it had travelled over fifty yards along a cleared break in the scrub parallel with the road, and then hurtled across a ditch nine feet wide and five feet deep, coming to rest in tall tea-tree some twenty feet beyond. The front wheels were smashed backward, front of the car completely buckled in, windscreen shattered, and the engine mountings broken. The driver was Mr A. Yarndley, of Te Awamutu. He was treated for superficial injuries at the Rotorua Hospital and discharged. His passenger, Mr A. C. Lavington, Rotorua, suffered facial injuries and a fraetured arm. His condition the following morning was satisfactory.
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Taupo Times, Volume III, Issue 138, 17 September 1954, Page 1
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203CAR LEAVES HIGHWAY Taupo Times, Volume III, Issue 138, 17 September 1954, Page 1
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