Motor-Car Crashes at Intersection

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 310, 22 March 1928, Page 1

Motor-Car Crashes at Intersection

PASSENERS ESCAPE When his motor-car skidded at the intersection of Fairfax Hoad and Great South Road and crashed into a telegraph pole shortly -after six o’clock last evening Mr Harry Tinker, horse dentist, of Manukau Road, was thrown on to the road and received painful cuts and bruises, necessitating his removal to the hospital. His passenger, Mr. John Ross, jeweller, of Hillside Crescent, Mount Eden, was only slightly bruised. The driver applied the brakes of his car suddenly to avoid a tram, and the vehicle skidded across the street and struck the pole with such force that both front doors were torn off and the whole of one side of the body wrecked. In addition the dashboard was shattered, ihe gearbox broken and the steering wheel smashed. The occupants, by a miracle, escaped serious injury, and a pedestrian, who was standing near the post, was showered with broken glass. If the car's journey had not been checked by the post, the neighbouring shops, as well as the motor, would have suffered.