RUNAWAY MOTOR

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 451, 19 June 1937, Page 4

RUNAWAY MOTOR

Crash Into A Shop

Left outside the Wellesley Street Post Office (Auckland) while its owner, Mr J. E. Howard, of 13 St. George's Bay Road, entered the building, ‘a motor car ran backward I down the incline on Thursday, and. out of control, mounted the footpath | at the corner of Wellesley and Lome i Streets. I A woman narrowly escaped being struck by the runaway vehicle, which I smashed the corner plate-glass win- | dows of Rowlutt and Moore’s bookshop. The windows, which were insured, were completely destroyed, bookshelves were broken and books damaged. The car was extensively damaged. The accident was the third of its kind in Wellesley Street in the past two years. In each case oars out of control have smash'd of Ehops.