TRAMS IN COLLISION

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 199, 20 May 1944, Page 6

TRAMS IN COLLISION

Motormen And, Others i Injured Two tramcars on the Tinakori Road line met in a head-on collision near Hawkestono Street at 6.15 p.m. yesterday, the cars being damaged and the motormen, a conductor and a passenger being taken to hospital. The Tinakori Road line is a sing.e track and the accident happened at the southern end of a loop a little south of Hawkestono Street.. As a car outward bound from the city was leaving the loop, where it had passed an inward. bound car, it collided with a second inward bound car. The motormau’s platform of the outward bound car was wrecked, and glass panes in other parts of- it were shattered. The leading end of the inward bound car was damaged, but less. The motorman of the outward bound car, Mr. R. V. Mahoney, 95 Orangi Kaupapa Road, Northland, received cuts on his hands and bruises on his knees. The conductor, Mr. W. G. Fishenden, 41 Molesworth Street, who was jolted out of a door of the rear compartment and fell on to the road, received cuts on his hands and concussion. Miss M. K. Ready. 40 Tinakori Road, a passenger in the car, received head injuries and slight concussion. The motorman of the other car. Mr. L. S. Tremayne, 22 Palm Grove, Berhipnpore, had his right leg injured. The injured persons were taken to hospital by the Free Ambulance, but only Mr. Fishenden was not able to go home after treatment. Several other passengers were in the cars, but only Miss Ready required hospital treatment. The cars were not derailed, but it was several hours before the more, seriously damaged one could he moved. Traffic was not seriously dislocated because the accident happened near the terminus of the Tinakori Road route, and later cars turned back a little short of their destination.