ON THE CARS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 407, 16 January 1909, Page 7

ON THE CARS.

' A SERIES OP SLIGHT MISHAPS. .:■ - . Four accidents on tho city tram 3 wero reported to the department on . Thursday' evening, land all took place within a couple, of hours. Happily, none of them were of a serious nature, but had it not been >|or: tho promptitude: oxercised by a motornunij one of them must have had a different ending. At 7.35 p.m. a Constable Street car 1 was ruuning' along Kent Terraco,' and had. just, passed,tho Ellico Street stopping-place, when tho motorman noticed: two ladies crossing the plantation towards Kent Terrace. Ringing the, gong loudly, ho shut off power and applied, thp hand brake, and then; seeing that the-ladies continued to-approach the line, he brought the car to a standstill, with the emergency, magnetic .brake; The two ladies were just stepping off the footpath, and one of.them; Mrs. O'Connor, of 8 Cambridge Terrace, fell right in front of the car. She was practically unhurt, and told the- motorman that the car had not struck-her. Apparently, she confused the gong of this car with tho bell sounded by /another iv short distance ahead. , :

.' In the Newtown carshed at about 8.30 p.m.: Conductor Gates fell from a standing car, and, striking the back, of his head, sustained slight concussion. It appears that he slipped from the step, _of ! a palace car while changing the destination boards. Conductor M'Carthy picked him up in an unconscious condition, and Dr. Bowcrbank was summoned. Yesterday Gates was reported to bo doing'well. , , ; Shortly after 8 : p.m. : a car. en route for. Constable' Street was stopped by. a ring at Tory Street. An elderly lady stepped off too soon, and was thrown heavily to. the ground. When she was picked up immediately after the, car stopped, blood was flowing from a wound on' her forehead. Tho lady, Mrs. Sountree, of 25 Tory Street, suffered slight concussion of the brain, but is not in any danger.-' ■ The fourth accident occurred on the Island Bay line at about 9.15 p.m. A car had just passed Tront Street, going at tho rato of three or four miles nil hour, when the conductor reported that a passenger, in' alighting, had fallen with, some force. On going back it was found that a young lady, "Miss Sweet, residing in. Trent Road, had missed her footing in the;.dark. However,''sho was: not badly hurt, by the fall, and was'able to procecd unaided to her home.