STREET ACCIDENT

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8350, 10 February 1913, Page 7

STREET ACCIDENT

TRAM AND EXPRESS COLLIDE. THREE PERSONS HURT. A serious accident was narrowly averted at the corner of Hunter street and Customhouse Q.uay shortly alter / o’clock on Saturday evening, when car No. 65, driven by Motorman llobert Adams, collided with an express, driven by John Vincent Dyke. The express, which is owned by Dyke, and was drawn by three horses, contained about twenty persons, who wore returning from a picnic held at Lower Hutt by the employees of Messrs John Duthio and Co. Dyke was about to turn from Hunter street into Customhouse quay to go into Willis street, when he saw the car coming down Customhouse quay in tho direction of the Post Office. He pulled the horses round facing the Post Office, but the tram struck the front carriage of the express, which was carried a distance of twelve yards before the car was brought to a standstill. The motorman says he was travelling at the rate of about six or seven miles an hour, but he did not see the express until the car was nearly on it. He sounded the gong. Three of the persons in the express, Miss Agnes Noble and Mr Robert Noble, of 168, Hankey street, and Miss Florrio Hill, of 12, Home street, were thrown out when the collision occurred. Miss Noble suffered slight concussion of tho brain, Miss Hill was bruised about the face, and Mr Robert Noble suffered slight concussion, and had one of his wrists strained. After being attended to by Dr Holmes at the Central Hotel, the injured people were removed to their homes. No damage was done to the tramcar. Two of the horses were hurt a little, and one of the shafts and the kingbolt of the express were broken. About a year ago a man was knocked down and killed at the same corner.