MOTOR-CAR ACCIDENT
1 CAR AND TRAM COLLIDE. i i A serious motor accident occurred at ■ Island Bay last evening about 7 o'clock. Mr. and Sirs. John Whatton, of 137 Tory Street, their children, two adult friends, and a driver, were proceeding along the Parade, and had arrived near Humber Street, when their car collided with a tram that was travelling in tho opposite direction. The motor-car lost a wheel, and the occupants were thrown out. Sirs. Whatton had her shoulder injured, and her youngest child, a mere baby, received severe injuries to its head, and had to he removed to the hospital, where it was at once operated upon. Tho prospects of the child's recovery could not last night he definitely ascertained. It appears that the motor-car_ was hired for a pleasure trip by the friends who were with the Whattons. The driver was Thomas Connolly, employed by Mrs. Nightingale, taxi-cab proprie- - tress.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 112, 29 January 1918, Page 4
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153MOTOR-CAR ACCIDENT Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 112, 29 January 1918, Page 4
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