CAR HITS BRIDGE RAILINGS
Traffic Delayed For More Than Hour
Long lines of traffic travelling to and from Sumner were held up for more than an hour shortly after 6.15 p.m. on Saturday after a car carrying five persons crashed into the railings of the Ferrymead bridge. No-one was injured. Traffic officers and police directed a heavy volume of traffic across the bridge after one lane had become blocked in the accident. During salvage operations the bridge was virtually closed to traffic from both directions. The driver of the car, Miss Ngaire Wishart, of 285 Hereford street, was blinded by the setting sun as she approached the bridge from the Lyttelton side, and the car struck the railing on the left side. It careered ahead, partly out of control, and smashed railings as it went. One railing broke the windscreen and sliced along the left side of the car narrowly missing two of the five occupants. The car stopped with its left front wheel hanging over the river.
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Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28413, 21 October 1957, Page 10
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