AN UNUSUAL ACCIDENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 337, 24 April 1928, Page 8

AN UNUSUAL ACCIDENT

INCIDENT ON ENGLISH ROAD An unusually complicated series of accidents :s recorded in the English ■ Motor. iis accidents occurred on a fine . ... •=. good c; '-eg rood that they zjre all the mere remarkable.

The first accident was between an Armstrong-Siddeley and a il orrisOxford, which approached one another slowly with headlights full on. The glare dazzled both drivers, and the -Armstrong just nnissed the il orris. The front cumb-irbn, however, caught -n the spokes of the Morris wheel, swinging that car round until it was at right angles to the road. An Austin had been slowly following the Armstrong, but on seeing the accident stopped immediately ar.d parked by the driver about 20 feet behind the Armstrong. While the three drivers were discussing what was to be done, another car a Voiscr s. came along in the same way as the Morris had been going, are before it could be stopped had smacked right into the side of the Morris. The momentum was suffic:er. to car: — the Vo iso ns (with the Morris cavwht on it> into the Austin parke i in the rear. The Morris was ? right on fop of the Austin, considerable- damaging that car. No one was hurt at all, and the Armstrong and the Voisons were scarcely scratched. The owner of a small garage in one of the suburbs of Auckland recently advertised for a garage boy for a week or two. When he arrived next morning he found 50 boys having a fight for first place in the queue. He narrowed the number down to 10 who had experience and who had licences, but had no idea in the world which one of the 10 to choose. Eventually he made a selection by the time-hon-oured method of ‘ selling a horse.” The j boys were quite satisfied.