SWERVES AND CRASHES
AUCKLAND FIREI-ENCINE
SERIOUS DAMAGE.
[THE PBBSB Bpecla] Service.}
AUCKLAND,| January 11.
A serious accident was narrowly averted when a new fire-emgine attached to the Onehunga Fire Briigade was travelling to a fire in a sty-roomed houso at the corner of Church Street west and Lower Selwyn street eajrly this morning.
The engine was about to turn into Church street when the driver noticed a man in the middle of fine road. The driver swerved quickly,, and the heavy machine was carried to ithe side of the road, and crashed into a telegraph post. One of the.firemen ws.s thrown from the engine', but fortunately landed on his feet.
The engine was "considerably dam* aged, the running-board and gear being stripped from one side". The shacklebolt was also broken, !but when this happened the engine fyid come to a standstill.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18897, 12 January 1927, Page 8
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