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Kōrero: Road accidents

Helping an injured motorist

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Helping an injured motorist

This man was injured when his car crashed in the Ngauranga Gorge, Wellington, in 1996. He was trapped in his car and it was some time before he could be freed.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP/1996/1788/6

by Ross Giblin

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Nancy Swarbrick, Road accidents – The cost of road accidents, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/20897/helping-an-injured-motorist (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Nancy Swarbrick, i tāngia i te 17 February 2010, updated 1 December 2014.