CYCLE AND TRAM COLLIDE
TWO MEN INJURED IN CITY. As the result of a collision between a motor-cycle and a tramcar, at the corner of Customhouse Quay aud Waring Taylor Street, about 12 o’clock yesterday, Henry Martin, of 207 Main Road, Lower Hutt, and Charles Henry White, of 4 Martin Street, are now in the Public Hospital, where they were admitted shortly after the accident cecurred. .suffering from broken legs. It is stated that Martin and White were proceeding southwards on tho motorcycle together in the rear of a tram going in the same direction, and were on the point of turning into Waring Taylor Street, when suddenly a northbound car appeared on the opposite side of the car they were following. Tho driver of the north-bound car promptly applied his brakes, but there was no chance of averting a collision. The motor-cycle struck the tram with great force, and the man steering the machine was thrown against the front portion of tho tram, smashing the glass to atoms, while his companion was thrown on to the road. The cycle was badly damaged. The driver of the tram escaped injury.
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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 46, 18 November 1926, Page 5
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190CYCLE AND TRAM COLLIDE Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 46, 18 November 1926, Page 5
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