NordieBoy
4th November 2007, 13:53
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4261288a11.html
"Shivering and wet, a desperate young woman scrambled up a steep, dark bluff to get help for her boyfriend swept away when their car plunged into the Buller River.
But her heroic efforts to raise the alarm could not save Leith McConochie, 25, one of the country's top young motocross riders.
McConochie managed to free himself from the submerged car but was carried down-river by fast-flowing currents and disappeared."
"Shivering and wet, a desperate young woman scrambled up a steep, dark bluff to get help for her boyfriend swept away when their car plunged into the Buller River.
But her heroic efforts to raise the alarm could not save Leith McConochie, 25, one of the country's top young motocross riders.
McConochie managed to free himself from the submerged car but was carried down-river by fast-flowing currents and disappeared."