ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 March 1918, Page 6

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

A MARVELLOUS ESCAPE. '4 On Monday when Messrs. Patterson and Linfortli's car was proceeding to Mangamingi with the mails, and five passengers, a startling accident was met with on the Mangamingi Ridge. The car, which was heavily loaded, was proceeding slowly up the .Mangamingi Ridge when the steering gear locked as the car was negotiating a bend. The car went over a bank and turned completely over, falling upside down, with the splasliboaVd resting on a boxthorn iiedge. It was tnis that saved the occupants from serious injury, or perhaps from death. The driver (Hurley) managed to extricate himself, and also the Rev. Hobday, who was one of the passengers. Assistance was procured, the car righted, and the other passengers released. Mrs. Martin and Miss Hook both escaped with slight bruises, but Mr. Baxter, who had been riding in the front seat with the driver, was somewhat badly bruised and scratched. The only damage sustained by the car was that the front axle was bent, and the wind-screen cracked, although in righting the car again one of the back wheels was broken. The passengers suffered little beyond bruises and a shaking, and their escape was a most remarkable one. Another ear was secured and the journey was completed without further mishap.—Argus.