BUS AND TRAMCAR COLLIDE

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 129, 29 February 1928, Page 12

BUS AND TRAMCAR COLLIDE

DRIVER AND MOTORMAN SLIGHTLY INJURED One of the Hutt Road busses recently taken over by the Railway Department collided with a tramcar on Thorndon Quay near the Railway Hotel at 7.55 yesterday morning. Except for receiving a bruise on the left knee, the driver and sole occupant of the bus, Alfred G. Cottrell, escaped injury. _ It appears that Cottrell was leaning over using the “choke” when the collision occurred. He had swerved over to the left-hand side of the road to pass a stationary lorry, and was working the “choke” when lie noticed the tramcar coming north about ten yards in front of him. He immediately tried to bring the bus over to the left "f the road, but the sleeve of his overcoat caught in the band controls end pt evented him from turning ‘he wheel that wav. When lie made an attempt to avoid the tram by going across to the right-band side of the quay ne was unable to get over in time with the result that the front side of the tramcar struck the off-side of the bus and carried it across the road. The g’nss in front of the motorman was orogen ,r.<! he received some cuts on the chyr. The bus, which left the Petone railwav yard at 7.20 a.in. was to nave taken up the 8.10 a.m. trip from I/inibton Station.