COLLISION IN SQUARE.
SHAFT PENETRATES CAR. TRAFFIC MANAGER’S ESCAPE. Serious injury was narrowly escaped bv Mr H. J. Smith, traffic manager for the Palmerston North City Council, when, in ail accident which occurred at 8.20 a.m. to-day, a shaft of a milk float penetrated the side of his car and passed six inches behind liis head.
Mr Smith was driving from the south side of the Square before negotiating the railway crossing a short distance from his office, when a milk float emerged from Main Street East, being about to turn into the Square. Finding himself right in the line of the Shafts, Mr Smith accelerated, and a fraction of a second later one of them smashed through the side window behind his head, while the other scored the side of his car. Two windows were broken on tiiat side of the vehicle, and the impact smashed tho shaft, but the horse was mi injured. Air Smith wa.s shaken by the experience, but unhurt.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 181, 2 July 1937, Page 7
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164COLLISION IN SQUARE. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 181, 2 July 1937, Page 7
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