EXTRAORDINARY MOTOR SMASH.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3541, 23 September 1926, Page 3

EXTRAORDINARY MOTOR SMASH.

CAR WRECKS BEDROOM

Dunedin, September 22,

An extraordinary motor smash took place in Mornington on Tuesday night, which fortunately was not attended by fatal results. Charles Foley, an employee of the City Corporation, accompanied by two of his family, a boy and a girl, were out for a ride in a car, and when turning from Ma'cnee St. into Haig St. the car failed to negotiate the corner, and crashed through a low picket fence into R. I. Gossage’s house, quite one-half of the vehicle being projected inside the bedroom which is situaled at the southeast corner of the dwelling. The eastern wall of the house was smashed into kindling wood and studs wore broken as if they bad been made of glass. The car was stopped in its progress by the fireplace but not before it had wrecked the room. The wardrobe was knocked over and badly damaged, and the bed was crumpled up. Needless io say the motor car suffered. One of the front wheels was wrenched off and a tiro was stripped from a wheel. It is said that the damage to the house will cost in the vicinity of £IOO to repair, and the cost of repairing the car is estimated at about £2O.

Foley escaped serious injury, but is suffering from shock. The boy received a few scratches and cuts, and the little girl had a bad cut on one of her legs, which required surgical attention. Foley had only recently purchased the car, and it is understood that Tuesday was the first day that he had been on the road with it. It is thought that when about to negotiate the corner lie put, his foot on the accelerator instead of on the brake.