DEAD AT WHEEL
DRIVER'S COLLAPSE
CAR CRASHES INTO HORSES
(0.C.) SYDNEY, Feb. 9. With a dead man at the steering wheel, a car crashed into a horsedrawn lorry in Cleveland Street, City, j'esterday, smashing hundreds of soft-drink bottles. The*" driver, - Alfred William Bounds, of St. Mark's Road, Randwick, apparently collapsed and died while driving. The car ran along the wrong side of Cleveland Street and hit a motor lorry and a utility truck before running into two'horses attached to a stationary lorry outside, a fruit shop. . '. Both horses were kriocked to the ground, and as-they struggled to get to their feet, cases of bottles were scattered in all directions. Passers-by had narrow escapes- from flying glass. One of the horses was -gadly gashed near the right shoulder. The lorry driver, Ernest Hutchinson, was sitting on the lorry when the runaway car approached. "I, could see the driver of-the car lying back in the . seat, I just had time to leap to the ground before, the car struck my horses," he said.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 37, 13 February 1943, Page 7
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