Tram Car Collision.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43113, 4 July 1907, Page 2

Tram Car Collision.

-^* (By Telegraph—Preea Association.)

CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. A serious tram accident occurred on Wednesday morning on the Papanui line, where two trams regularly cross at a siding on a single line. The outgoing car was running well in all respects within a quarter of a mile of the turnout, but the motojrman states that he found the controller stuck when *he tried to shut off the current to stop on the siding. Consequently, he ran right through, and hit the other car at the end of tho siding. The fronts of both carswere smashed in, byt no injury was dope iq the seated passenger's or motormeq. One woman, however, seejng tbli impending encash, stepped off thj» moving car backwards, qqd fej| on $9 back of her head, sustaining a fraotufe of the base of the skull. She w*l Jf middle-aged woman, vhose san}§ if unknown.