No-One Hurt When Cars Collide
No-one was injured when two cars were involved in a spectacu lar collision at the corner of Hereford street and Oxford terrace about 7.40 p.m. yesterday An old-model car came to rest wedged between a lamp post and the Victoria Insurance Company building. The windscreen was shattered and the front of the car damaged. The other vehicle involved, a large American car, travelled 40 yards east along Hereford street before mounting the footpath and knocking down a parking meter. The car stopped when it struck the entrance of a building. Slight damage was done to another car parked nearby.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28897, 18 May 1959, Page 10
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