CRUSHED BETWEEN TRAMS
VAN DRIVER’S NARROW ESCAPE Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, To-day. With his milk-van crushed between two moving tramcars, Henry Daniel Spence, of Francis Street. Burwood. had a miraculous escape from death this morning. The accident happened when the traffic on Ferry Road was heavy. Spence, who was driving a light van. turned out of Olliver’s Road in the direction of the city, running alongside a city-bound tramcar. Before he had gone 20 yards he collided with an outward-bound tram, the van being crushed between it and an inwardbound car.
Spence was pinned into what was the driving seat by the wheel. He managed to get out through where the windshield had been with no worse injuries than a bruised chest and a small cut on one finger. The van was extricated with a horse and dray.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 500, 1 November 1928, Page 13
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137CRUSHED BETWEEN TRAMS Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 500, 1 November 1928, Page 13
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