RUNAWAY CAR
ACCIDENT AT AUCKLAND
SENSATIONAL INCIDENTS
By Telegraph—Press Arsodi.ati|i:n. J Auckland, February, 22. About midnight a tram going' down a rather steep gradient on the Ivhyber Pass Road got out of control, left the rails, and crashed into nu alleyway between the Savings Bank and the hotel in Newmarket.
The car contained five passengers. All escaped uninjured. 'J'he motorman (Halley) stuck to his post. Hβ was cut about the face, but walked to a doctor's residence.
Part of the outer wall of the hotel was torn away, and tho remainder of the wall knocked out of perpendicular. The private bar was completely wrecked, and the stock and some, of the bedrooms overhead considerably damaged. These- rooms were not occupied. The wife of the proprietor was thrown out of bed in a room at the back of the premises. A boarder who occupied another bedroom was also thrown out of bed.
The bank, built of brick, was damaged to a slight extent. The tramcar was badly damaged.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3011, 23 February 1917, Page 6
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167RUNAWAY CAR Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3011, 23 February 1917, Page 6
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