CAR FALLS OVER CLIFF.

Taranaki Daily News, 5 April 1921, Page 4

CAR FALLS OVER CLIFF.

DROP OF A HUNDRED FEET. SIX OCCUPANTS INJURED. By Telegraph.—Press Association. < Christchurch, Last Night. A party of motorists returning frorai; O’Kain’s Bay to Christchurch met with an accident on the Akaroa Road near the hilltop on Saturday night. The car contained six passengers, and whem coming up Barry’s Bay Hill the lights suddenly failed and the car fell over a cliff about a hundred feet deep, the occupants being thrown in all and all were more or less injured. The occupants of the car wfcre:— Forbes Blackmore (26), residing in Shrewsbury Street, a traveller for* Adams, Ltd., motor-car proprietors, who was driving the car. Bertram Edwards, of the New Brighton Hotel, a son of the late Mr* M. Edwards, a well-known trotting trainer. ® Norman Bing, on holiday from Wel« lington, where he is employed at Commercial College. * i Duncan Brown, Christchurch, arclxi* tect. George Storey, comedian in Waite/ George’s Sunshine Players Company; now appearing at the Opera House, and Mrs. Storey, wife of George Storey* who is known as Dulcie Milner. The car left the road at a fairly safe point, where there was no bend or ob* struction, and it is presumed it rartf back as the driver was pulling up toj look to his lights. The car crashed through a wire fence close to the roadf and rolled over sideways until it reached the bottom. It was so badly smash-, ed that it will probably have to be dis< mantled before it can be hauled bacU to the road. Viewing the wreckage now, it is seei< the party escaped more serious injury ies by a miracle. All the were stunned and remained unconscious for some time. Storey had a leg fractured and suffered other severe injuries, the full extent of which are as yei unknown. Edwards had a collarbone broken, Blackmore was badly cut on the thigh, and the three others were consicL erably bruised and shaken.