WEEK-END COLLISIONS
CARS AND TRUCKS DRIVERS ESCAPE INJURY There were three collisions between motor-cars and trucks during the week-end. No one was injured, although some of the vehicles were badly damaged. A large motor-car, driven by Miss P. Sharp, of Devonport, and a truck belonging to the Busy Bee Furnishing Company, driven by Mr. H. Buer, of Ponsonby, collided at the Strand, Takapuna, about 5.30 p.m. on Saturday. The windscreen of the lorry was shattered and the raidator damaged. The car escaped with a bent mudguard. A motor-car and a light delivery van collided at the corner of Grove and Edendale Roads about noon on Saturday. The car had to have a new back wheel fitted before it could proceed. Both front tyres were punctured by broken glass from the windscreen. The van was not damaged. In a collision between a lorry driven by Mr. A. Jenkins, of Otahuhu, and a motor-car. in Great South Road, near Penrose, on Saturday, the car was thrown aside and crushed against a stone wall. The body was badly damaged. The radiator of the lorry was crushed.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 177, 17 October 1927, Page 16
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183WEEK-END COLLISIONS Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 177, 17 October 1927, Page 16
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