MOTOR-CAR LEAPS DOWN HILL-SIDE
FAILED TO TAKE BEND STUMP PREVENTS IT HITTING HOUSE [Per Press Association.) HASTINGS, Feb. 22. A car leaping 50ft. down a hillside from one street level to another startled the whole neighbourhood in Napier at 6.30 last night. The car, driven by Mr. F. R. Reynolds, failed to take an elbow bend, crashed down into the back garden of a residence on a lower street, and came to rest capsized on a tree stump, which penetrated the hood, missing the back of the driver by inches. Mr Reynolds, who was the only occupant, received injuries to the head and a fractured left leg. He was taken to the Napier Hospital ana his condition is reported to be satisfactory.
Mr. Reynolds had a remarkable escape from death, but the occupants of the house were just as lucky, as the tree stump which erased through the car’s hood stopped it from rolling down the hill and plunging into the rear of the house. The first inkling the occupants had that anything was amiss was when the house received a sudden jolt, as. though it was being wrenched apart,' caused by the car becoming entangled in the wireless aerial strung between the house and the hill, during its fall.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 45, 23 February 1939, Page 8
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210MOTOR-CAR LEAPS DOWN HILL-SIDE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 45, 23 February 1939, Page 8
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