MOTOR HITS TRAM

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 442, 25 August 1928, Page 13

MOTOR HITS TRAM

DRIVER TRIES TO AVOID CYCLIST YOUNG WOMAN INJURED Trying to avoid a boy on a bicycle in Khyber Pass Road about 10 o’clock last evening, Mr. G. W. Gibbons’s car skidded into the side of a moving tramcar and was thrown off across the footpath into the wall of the Captain Cook Brewery. Miss Doris Gibbons, aged 20, was thrown out of the car and received head injuries. She was taken to hospital. The other occupants of the car, Mr. Gibbons, who lives in Clonbern Road, Remuera, and his wife and son, were only slightly bruised. The car was very badly smaslied, the bonnet, front wheels and mudguards being twisted and torn. The boy on the bicycle, realising that he was in danger, lost control of his machine and was thrown off when it ran into the kerb. He was unhurt, but the bicycle’s front wheel was buckled. The tram was practically undarmtged. At mid-day the hospital authorities reported that Miss Gibbons was recovering satisfactorily, and that her condition was not serious.