CAR LEAVES ROAD

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 March 1939, Page 3

CAR LEAVES ROAD

BODYWORK BADLY SMASHED. TWO OCCUPANTS IN HOSPITAL. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) NAPIER, February 28. About a mile on the Taupo side of Rangitaiki Hotel, on the Napier-Taupo road, a new sedan car travelling toward Taupo and driven by Mr Jack Cotterill, aged 24, Napier, with Mr R. H. Weeks, aged 40, Kennedy Road, Napier, as passenger, came to grief on the open road with no other traffic in the neighbourhood about noon today. The car left the road, struck a twofoot bank on the left-hand side, turned two somersaults and came to rest on its wheels facing in the opposite direction. The top of the car was crushed down almost on to the back of the front seat, all the glass smashed and the bodywork wrecked. Both men were semi-conscious when they were picked up and taken to the Rangitaiki Hotel, where they were attended by Dr Armstrong, Taupo. An ambulance with a nurse set out from Napier and brought them back to Napier Public Hospital. Mr Weeks was reported tonight to have received shock, abrasions andjnjuries to the chest, and Mr Cotte'rill was reported to be suffering frdm shock, abrasions and bruises. Their condition was said to be satisfactory.