TRAMS COLLIDE

Evening Star, Issue 24280, 22 August 1942, Page 4

TRAMS COLLIDE

DRIVERS AND PASSENGERS SUFFER MINOR INJURIES

(P.A.) AUCKLAND, August 21. When two trams collided in the upper end of Pitt street late this afternoon injuries necessitating hospital .treat* meat were suffered by both the drivers and by two passengers. They were* taken to hospital, and after receiving treatment for minor injuries at tuo casualty department were able to go m their homes. Another passenger co.lapsed when the accident occurred, but quickly'recovered. A heavily-laden tram which was bound for Ponsonby and which should have run to the top of Pitt street' and turned into Karangahape road, accidentally turned at a set of antomatia points opposite Beresfofd street, leading to a siding in that street. As it came on to the downhill line of the Pitt street double track it struck another tram which was returning from Ponsonby with only a few passengers. The drivers’ cabins were severely, damaged and glass was strewn over th® roadway. Long tines of trams quickly collected on each side of the damaged vehicles, but after a period were diverted.