DENSE FOG OVER ENGLAND
TRANSPORT PARALYSED ACCIDENTS TO CARS, riHIPS, AND AEROPLANES (UKITKD TRESS ASSOCIATION—BY ELICTSIC TELKGBAPH —COPYRIGHT.) (Received December 23, 9.20 p.m.) LONDON, December 22. Dense fog impeded Christmas shopping in London and provincial towns, bringing to a standstill hundreds of lorries with Christmas goods on main roads, and paralysing communications throughout the country. A lorry collided with an omnibus near Doncaster and caught fire. The driver was burned to death. A woman walking in Leicester stumbled over an obstacle, which turned out to be a dead man, who had apparently had a stroke. An air force aeroplane lost its bearings and was forced to land on the Isle of Sheppey. It overturned, but the occupants were unhurt. A seaplane was stranded on a mudbank in the Medway. Boats took off the pilot and two passengers. A ferry collided with a trawler in the Tyne, and both were damaged. Shipping is almost stationary in the Thames, Tyne, and Humber.
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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21355, 24 December 1934, Page 13
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