07 December, 1961
Firemen rescue a passenger after a car plunged into the canal at Suezkade, The Hague.
H.W. Westering
Hendrik (Henk) Wijnand van Westering (1939-1988) was a Dutch photographer and photo editor at Sijthoff Press.
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