MOTOR-CAR JAMMED BETWEEN TWO TRAMS
SPECTACULAR COLLISION A LUCKY ESCAPE Screeching brakes, a resounding crash, and the sound of splintering timber compelled the, attention of residents within the vicinity of the junction of Bellevue and Mount Eden Roads about 6.30 last evening. A light five-seater car driven by Mr. George Herbert, of Royal Oak, accompanied by Mrs. Herbert, became jammed between two tramcars travelling in opposite directions. The motorist had turned into Mount Eden Road just in time to be caught on the outside of an outward-bound tram. With too great a speed on to pull up, he apparently “stepped on the gas” in an endeavour to swing round the front of the tram on to his right side Another tram approaching from the opposite direction, however, had by this time appeared round the corner. The inevitable collision resulted. Between the two heavier vehicles the car was swung round head up the track and compressed into the intervening space. The occupants had a miraculous escape from serious injury, for, though the exterior portion of the car was completely wrecked, they escaped practically unscathed.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 202, 15 November 1927, Page 16
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183MOTOR-CAR JAMMED BETWEEN TWO TRAMS Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 202, 15 November 1927, Page 16
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