CRASH INTO SHOP

Press, Volume CV, Issue 30957, 13 January 1966, Page 12

CRASH INTO SHOP

Car Through Window

| A pre-war car rammed |through the front of Mr R. D. ! Jones’s grocery store at 922 b | Colombo street about 9.20 p.m. [yesterday. I The car, travelling north in I Colombo street, came into I collision with another car at the Bealey avenue interesection, carried on through the intersection and swung to the right into Mr Jones’s shop. Neither driver was hurt. Almost the whole of the front of the shop was wrecked, cartons of display goods were burst open. The car went right into the ■ shop, wrecking a low brick [ wall, and come to rest in such j a position that the front | bumper had to toe taken off before the car could be pulled j out. The right end of the bumper hooked round the support for the recessed doorway and jammed there. “There was glass everywhere,” Mr Jones said as he looked at the jagged edges of large plate-glass windows. “Soap-powder and coffee was inches thick—l don’t know ;how many packets of soap- | powder and coffee were on display in the windows, but [we have got what’s left in tins [out the back.” Mr Jones said that he and his wife, who live away from) the store, were at home watch-1 ing television when the ten-) ants in the flat above their! shop rang to say a car had gone through the shop window.

Mr Jones and his son, Mr R. J. Jones, with the help of neighbours last night had cleared up most of the glass and spilled stock and boarded up the shattered shop-front. “Something always seems to be happening to us,” said Mrs R. O. Jones. “We had burglars in our home just before Christmas.”