SLIPPERY STREET

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 167, 17 July 1941, Page 8

SLIPPERY STREET

CHAPTER OF ACCIDEHTS TRAP FOR CYCLISTS « For a brief period about o'clock this morning there was coosternation in Karangahape Boad.ll Aucklanders felt the cold snap en their way to work, but nanr motorists driving in Karangaliqe Road failed to see a thin layer®! ice over the road at the cornerwiai is approached just before reading Pitt Street when travelling from flit Ponsonby and Grey Lynn districts. The ice. combined with the grades! the road, which slopes iri~ tuiafc the kerb, led to numerous acadetfi most of which were of a humoSS nature—to those who were 1$ involved. _ Cars found difficulty in negotiate the bend and after a number i minor accidents had resulted, I policeman was stationed to coiM the traffic. Some cars, mistakingth "slow down" sign for the w. sign, braked quickly and went m violent skids, one small car Uuitf round three times before comingtll standstill. Another car failed topi up in time and. hitting a car, pate it forward, thus producing a trflfc collision.

A number of cyclists lost coffli of their machines and felL b> elderly man also crashed and wbHi three onlookers went to his aafcance they al>o " hit the ice." AnuSman carrying his milk cans IB another victim,

The confusion was lessened Irivers were given ample vrannnf 3f their approach lo the dangeroffi section of the load. Eventually©F Council workmen threw gravel ore the treacherous surface, ending A* comedy.