Motor Ends Mad Career in Queen St.

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 604, 5 March 1929, Page 1

Motor Ends Mad Career in Queen St.

RUNAWAY’S CRASH SNAPPED VERANDAH POST After careering down Upper Queen Street at high speed, at 1.30 o’clock this morning, a five-seater sedan car crashed into a verandah post at the corner of Wellesley Street breaking the post off close to the ground. Two men jumped out of the car and disappeared. Several people saw the career of the car. On reaching the intersection of Wellesly Street the car swerved suddenly round the tramway centre-pole and careered across the road on to the footpath, breaking the verandah pole on the way. One of the men went up Wellesley Stx'eet East and the other up Wellesley Street West. Policemen were quickly on the scene, only to find the car empty, but iu it were found a woman’s coat, a gramophone and a bunch of grapes. It was learned that the car had been rented for the evening from a city garage. The damage was estimated at about £4O.

This morning the man who had hired the car called on the police and the garage proprietor. He said another man, two women and himself had .been in the car. They had left it outside an eating house while having supper. They came out and got into another car, thinking it was the one they had hired.

The owner remonstrated with them and they apologised, explaining their mistake. They could not find their own car, however, but a man told them a car had just been smashed in Queen Street. They went down and saw it was their car.