LORRY HITS BRIDGE

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1065, 1 September 1930, Page 14

LORRY HITS BRIDGE

WOMAN PASSENGER HURT WELLINGTON, Sunday. A Public Works Department lonT. bound for Wellington, collided the central pillar of the over ‘ “ bridge across the Hutt Road. . Kaiwarra, on Saturday night, was wrecked. A woman passeng was injured rather seriously, Cina lies in the Wellington Hospital. * driver, Mr. V. Hughes, of the Pum Works Department, was cut about head and face. The passenger. .Miss Ge c,fLt. O’Connor, who lives in Bolton » „ was taken by an ambulance to " 3 ington Hospital suffering from ® u 5. the face, a broken nose and cwt sion. , A piece of the concrete * knocked out of the pillar by tn of the impact. The bonnet vehicle was pushed back to tn screen, which was made ° . , ur j e = glass, and this prevented tn® heins received by the occupants fro more serious than they were. . The bridge is the one over the Manawatu main raU rv simpasses. Another bridge _wi ilar concrete supports 1S ,55 neighbourhood of Ngahauiang • distance further along the r • Ngahauranga bridge is eq’UPP flashing lights. The Kaiwarra has a permanent light. J* been in position for many -