MOTORIST'S MAD CAREER.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 December 1920, Page 4

MOTORIST'S MAD CAREER.

DASHES INTO A CROW.

SEViiRAL PEOPLE DJJURBD.

By Telegraph.—Pre* Association.

Wellington, Last Night. Just, as the people were coming out of the theatres to-night, a motor car, with ■a solitary occupant, dashed through the city streets, the man at the wheel shouting at the top of his voice: "Get out of my way!" '.

Eye witnesses say the car appeared to be (|uitc out of control, and to-be unveiling at a very high speed, jhe cur negotiated several corner* safely, but, on reaching the junction of Manners and Cuba Streets, it dwhed through a crowd of people waiting'for t/ic trams and collided with a standing tram. It knocked down a woman »ho whs about to enter the, train, iteuei others and then, with a cnild locked W der its wheels, slid right acrori iokht other side of the road, where it struck a number of pedestrians," A scene of great confusion, followed, and exact information' as to thos* injured is at present unavailable, mVi\ is reported that five persons have Mi< ready been taken to hospital. TJ»« number includes a "man who is said'fa be the driver of the car. He is in a critical state. One woman suffered a compound fracture of a leg, and another had her ankle' broken. Ma»J others received minor injuries.