CAR TEARS THROUGH BEDROOM.
EXTRAORDINARY ACCIDENT. FIVE PERSONS INJURED. Tamworth (N.S.W.), May 11. An extraordinary motor accident occurred on the Armidale Road shortly after * o'clock this morning. Damage to a considerable extend was done to a cottage owned by Mr. W. Matthews and to a motor car. A car driven (by Mr. Jack Dale?, and containing seven members of the Tain■worth Model Band, was returning from a social at Dungowan when a rear wheel of the car was struck by another car, which was attempting to pass the leading conveyance. Tho result was that Mr. Daley's car went Crashing down the embankment. A telegraph and alignment post were in the way, but Mr. Daley steered between them, and, breaking through a fence, smashed through the brick wall of the bedroom occupied by Mr. Matthews. The force at which the war was going after its headlong dash down the embankment was sufficient to carry it right through the second wall of the room out on to the verandah. Here a vine which had been growing over the structure for many years caught the car and brought it to' a standstill at the wall of another bedroom occupied by Mjr. and Mrs. Matthews, sen. Members of the party in'tihe car were cut about by falling glass. A third car, containing the remaining members of tho band, came along shortly afterwards and conveyed the injured passengers to Dr. Stanley's surgery, where they were attended to for minor injuries. T'.ie damage to the car and cottage is estimated at £3OO.
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Taranaki Daily News, 28 May 1917, Page 7
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256CAR TEARS THROUGH BEDROOM. Taranaki Daily News, 28 May 1917, Page 7
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