RUNAWAY VAN.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 140, 16 June 1939, Page 9

RUNAWAY VAN.

CRASH INTO HOUSE.

WINDOW PANE SHATTERED.

REMUERA WOMAN'S ESCAPE

Left parked on a hill in Remuera at 9.30 this morning, a baker's van ran down the road and crashed into the side of a house. Xobody was hurt, but Mrs. A. A. Hicke, a lodger in the house, who was passing- a window when the vehicle struck the house and broke the pane, received a severe fright. The driver of the van. Mr. C. V. C'harlton, parked bis vehicle outside a house on the coiner of Portland and fchera Hoads. and went to deliver thn day's bread. The brakes of the van apparently slipped, for the vehicle ran down the slope of Shera Road, careered over the steep bank beside the house, and smashed into the side of tho bnildinir. It finished up at a steep angle, with its radiator against the window. shattering the glass and damaging the frame.

Mrs. Hicks whs on her way to answer the baker at the door, and was paesinjj the window when the impact occurred. Fortunately she was not struck bv anv of the flyinsr gla**, The radiator <»f the van whs bent and the driver's seat was thrown against the windscreen, but there was little other damage. In its da«h over the footpatli and down the bank it smashed away a large portion of the side of the path. Another van was summoned, and by 10 o'clock the bread had been transferred, for the round to be continued