A TRAM ACCIDENT.
Per Press Association. Christchurch, ; July 8. A serious tram accident occurred this morning on Papanui line. Two tsams regularly cross at a siding ou a single line. The outgoing car was ruuuiusg well in all respects within a quarter of a mile of tho turnout, but the motormau states that lie found the controller stuck tried to shut off the current to stop ou the siding, consequently it ran right through and met the Other ct),r end ou at tho oud of tho aiding.’' : The front ends of the cars wore smashed 'in, hut u i injury yyas dope to tho seated passengers or the motomon. Quo woman, however, seeing the impending smash, stepped off the moving car backwards' and fell on the hack of her head, sjis= taiuing a fracture of the base of the skul. She was a middle aged woman, name unknown, ,
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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8854, 3 July 1907, Page 2
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148A TRAM ACCIDENT. Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8854, 3 July 1907, Page 2
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