UNDER A TRAM
MEN IN WRECKED CAR. 'i f .. V \ / , * ' H•' , ' (Ry TelegrnpL —Press Association). V V; - ' july- 2. A small” motor oar was struck by< a tranicar in - Wellesley Street Eait 'this afternoon, and Svas crushed-'! into wreckage against a tramways'centre pole. The driver of the Laing, aged '49,' residing at 30 fWrey Crescent, Grey Lynn, and Robert -Me-. Ewaii, • of .'AVest'Street, Mount 7 Albert, w'er? •ipinmed' in the wrecked T&'f Adi--derneath a tram. Twenty-five ‘ minutes elapsed before Laing cated, •'and' a fiirt'Kfcr: twentyi«ini ! iiintcs before McEwan was released, ril e} tram liavihg to be jacked up , for the"- purpose. ' ' - *; V* - . . " : P'A f large- crowd collected, and-tall traffic had to be diverted. A\ r fi.iting ambulances ’quickly conveyed til'd’ men to a- hospital: Laing 'sustained'-sev-eral 'broken ribs aiid abrasions,-! arid tlio hospital Reported to-night that -his condition is not serious. .v ,r> McEiVaii ' sustained injuries .Jo- the leg and ankle, together with'possible internal injuries, but after treatment at the hospital* ho was taken h'ofoi’e. ' '- y. '
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Hokitika Guardian, 3 July 1929, Page 3
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166UNDER A TRAM Hokitika Guardian, 3 July 1929, Page 3
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