SPECTACULAR SMASH

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 952, 21 April 1930, Page 14

SPECTACULAR SMASH

TAXI AND MILK VAN MEET IN FOG EARLY MORNING ACCIDENT A spectacular smash occurred at the corner of Mt. St. John Avenue and Manukau Road during the »fog, at about 7.30 this morning, when a taxicab and a small coupe car used for milk delivery came into violent collision. Both vehicles were badly damaged and four women passengers in the taxi and the drivers had a remarkable escape, none being hurt, though all suffered from shock.

The taxi, which was being driven toward Onehunga by Mr. Thomas William Langford, of 4 Valentine’s Lane, Nelson Street, hid picked up the ’four passengers at the Newmarket railway station. At the Mt. St. John Avenue intersection the cab met the coupe, which had then emerged from Dommett Avenue and was proceeding into Mt. St. John Avenue. Visibility was very bad and the small car was struck broadside on and carried eight yards and piled against a telegraph post. The impact tore a pillar-box from the post and flung It several feet away. The coupe, which was being driven by Air. PI. Alkins, of Sunnyvale Road, Remuera, is practically a write-off. The front portions of the taxi were mutilated. So heavy was the collision that a number of milk bottles were hurled 20 feet into the nearby property. Mr. Langford was driving the cab for a friend. Dr. E. J. Miller, of Manukau Road, who was called, attended to the passengers of the taxi, who were bruised but not hurt.