CAR GOES OVER BANK
FOUR MEN INJURED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON. This Day. Four men were injured when a motor-car went over a bank of the Khandallah-Johnsonville road shortly after C. 30 p.m. on Saturday. They were: A. Johnstone, tractor driver. 25 Marion Street. Wellington, head injuries and concussion. T. Lennox, labourer, Public Works, Plimmerton, head injuries and concussion. J. McGreavy. labourer. Plimmerton. dislocated left hip. severe shock, scalp wounds.
E. May, labourer, 95 Ghuznee Street. Wellington, fractured left thigh, lacerated wounds to left ear and scalp, shock.
The car, which was a coupe with two of the men in the open seat at the rear, was driven by Mr Johnstone, and was returning from Pukerua Bay. About 200 yards on the Johnsonville side of the city boundary it failed to take a bend, ran along a footpath and over a bank, somersaulting two or three times and landing in some gorse. The car was considerably damaged.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 October 1939, Page 2
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