CAR WRECKED.
SANDWICHED BETWEEN TRAMS. (Per Press Association.) ■WELLINGTON, February 19. Two tram-cars were partly derailed, and a motor-car almost completely wrecked in a. sandwich accident at the junction of Customhouse Quay and Post Office Square at 8.45 this morning. The driver of the car, Mr H. C. Trim, programme organiser at 2YA, had an extraordinary escape from injury, climbing from the window without a scratch. An hour’s work with a breakdown gang waggon and four other trams were required to free the motor-car, which was tightly wedged, and to get the two trams back on the rails.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 57, Issue 111, 20 February 1937, Page 2
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