NARROW ESCAPE.
CAR’S DIVE INTO LAGOON
NELSON, Dec. 6. An accident which. jeopardised. the lives of . two women happened near Oanvastown, on the Nelson-Blenheim main road yesterday, when a light car driven by Sister Dundon, of the Havelock Cottage Hospital, with Nurse I. Sullivan as a passenger, dived into a deep lagoon alongside the road. The car was submerged in about 15 feet of water. . Mr L. Smith, of Havelock, leaped into the water, but became entangled in some willow branches and could nol free himself until assisted. Mr Stevenson, of Nelson, was motoring with some. friends, . who were on the spot when the accident happened. quickly entered the water and rescued both the women, who had somehow shot clear of the submerged car, and were struggling on the surface. Miss Sullivan was little the worse for her wetting, but Sister Dundon was unconscious when brought from the water and did not respond to resuscitation for some time. She is suffering from shock, and also had her left hand badly lacerated. Mr Stevenson’s prompt action averted what would otherwise have been an almost certain fatality.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 8, 7 December 1926, Page 7
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185NARROW ESCAPE. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 8, 7 December 1926, Page 7
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