[{"node":{"title":"Lingard162","Collections":"Chapter 17","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard162","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Policeman, Ambulance","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard162","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Lingard162_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff154\n\nCHAPTER SEVENTEEN\n\nThe car lay crushed against the seal wall on its off-side, the near-\nside wheels spinning in the air. Two cars stopped and the drivers ran\nto help release the occupants. The dog would not stop barking and\nyelping. It wastrembling with fright. Sadie scramibled out first,\nand then Kevin. And then tThey helped to ease out Mr Blake. He was\ndazed and could s not stand. They set him down by the edge of the road.\nand Jack sat beside him licking his face.\n\nBy this timenow several other cars had stopped, and within minutessoon a\npolice car came along the road. The policeman sent out a call for\nan ambulance.\n\n\"I\u2019m all right,\" Mr Blake waskept muttering.\n\n\"We must have you all checked up,\" said the policemanconstable.\n\nSadie and Kevin were bruised and a little shocked but nothing more.\nMr Blake had kept xxxxxx his head and controlled the car as far as\nit was possible so that they had not been travelling very fast when\nthey/hit the wall.\n\n\"Lucky escape,\" said the policemanconstable. \"You don\u2019t often have much of\na chance when a wheel comes off.\n\n\"Can\u2019t understand it,\" said Mr Blake. \"A wheel coming off.\"\n\n\"Somebody hasn\u2019t tightened it up properly,\" said the policemanconstable.\n\"We\u2019ll have to check at your garage.\"\n\n\"Haven\u2019t had that wheel changed for months,\" said Mr Blake.\n\n\"Never mind,\" said Sadie. \"Don\u2019t think about it any more just now.\"\n\nThey wentwere taken to the nearest hospital by ambulance. The doctor cleared\n","Type":"Text"}}]