RUNAWAY CAR

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 177, 17 October 1927, Page 9

RUNAWAY CAR

TELEGRAPH POLE SMASHED A light four-seater touring car left outside a shop on College Hill about 12.30 p.m. to-day decided to wait no longer and moved off on its own initiative. One man chased it in a motor-car but before he could reach it, it had stopped on Its own accord by the simple expedient of mounting the footpath opposite Mr. J. Pratt’s butcher's shop and running into a telegraph pole. Although the car was only travelling at about seven or ten miles an hour, the shock was too much for the pole, which is badly rotted, and it snapped off close to 'the ground, the car coming to a standstill with the end of the pole resting across the bonnet. The only damage done to the car was a small dent in the bonnet and a broken lamp-glass. The car, which was driven by Mr. McShane, of Messrs. Macky Logan, Caldwell, Ltd., and who had left it outside a shop while transacting business, was left in gear and with the brakes on, but apparently the latter had failed to hold. A new telegraph post is now required on College Hill.