GUIDES IN CRASH

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 688, 14 November 1933, Page 5

GUIDES IN CRASH

(Press Assn.—

FOURTEEN ON LORRY GET A BAD SHAKING COLLISION IN STREET

-By Telegraph — Copyrlght).

Christchurch, Saturday Fourteen girl guides from the Colombo Street Baptist Troop had a very narrow escape when the lorry in which they were being driven to their week-end camp collided with a City Council truck, directly opposite the Burwood Monument ahout three o'clock yesterday afternoon. Most of the girls suffered- cuts and abrasions, but only one, Naney Travis, of Longf ellow Street, had to be taken to hospital to have cuts on her lip, chin, and hands attended to. A City Council employee on the other track named J. Soulsby, of 206 Papanui Road, was taken to hospital with injuries to a shoulder. Both were treated as outpatients. The girls had left town on the lorry belonging to the Economic Express Co. and driven by Mr. H. L. Hecc, of 27 Harper Street, for the Aumoe Guide farm, where they will make their camp. With the exception of one, the troop leader, they were all sitting on top of their piled up baggage in the body of the lorry, and so were thrown clear when it collided with the City Council truck just as the latter was turning out of Lake Terrace Road with seven City Council emloyees aboard who were returning from the council reserves. The driver was Mr. A. Rogers. The troop leader of the Guides was sitting next to the driver and the escape of these two from serious injury was extraordinarily lucky for the lorry was toppled right over on its left side, all the glass was shattered, and the cabin and radiator were partly torn away. Apart from shock and a few cuts, however, they escaped unhurt. The City Council truck did not appear to be damaged very badly.