Driving Accident.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 776, 20 March 1905, Page 2

Driving Accident.

An exciting dribing accident, for- | lunatcly attended .with no very serious consequences, occurred a few minutes before 4 o'clock on Saturday afternoon. Mr and Mrs 0. Deacon, of South Road, were the unlucky principals in the affair. They wore out driving in a two-wheeled light vehicle, and when at the foot of Cari-inglcon llond , hill the right wheel of the vehicle j cume off, The mishap violently pre- j cipitated the occupants on to the ' roadway, and the horse, a spirited trotter, became affrighted, and, freed , from control, dashed wildly down I the road towards) town, with its lopsided load attached. The runaway passed down Carrie Street into Dev- j >n Street, maintaining u rattling race, and providentially esca; nig lunary collisions on the way. '1 ..u , >olt made a hurried scatter In the rowded thoroughfare, and the runway nearly caused another accident iy coining foul of Mr Martin's gig, n which throe young ladies were eated. It wus only the driver's rescrice of mind ilia I saved their lorse from also making off. This ollision brought the Beacons' horse o a standstill, and it was secured lefore it could continue its headong career. Examination showed hat the horse had escaped any inary beyond a few trivial cuts and brasions, and that considering its ough passage the vehicle had been 'ery little damaged. Mr Deacon soon appeared on the icene to claim the vehicle, and it vas then learned that both he and us %ite were little the worse for the iccident. They, of course, received i shock from their upset, but suffered 10 other injury. Mrs Deacon, after jeing attended to at a neighbour s louse, wus ablo to proceed to her -esidence.