SPECTACULAR ACCIDENT

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29397, 27 December 1960, Page 10

SPECTACULAR ACCIDENT

Car Ends Against Veranda A resident at the corner of Canon and Sherborne streets, Mr F. L. Squire, on Saturday morning heard a squeal of brakes, the thud of cars colliding, then an even louder bang before the tinkle of broken glass—this time almost in his house. He found a small car hard up against the corner of his veranda, and a large car, with its bonnet badly smashed, on the other side of Sherborne street. His letter-box, which had been on the street line beside a big beech tree, was lying broken on the veranda In the car against the veranda were the driver and a boy of three, "Die boy had superficial cuts from flying glass; the driver and the two men in the other car were unhurt.

The small car had been travelling south down Sherbourne street to meet the boat train, and the bigger vehicle, the occupants of which had been going to work, was going west along Canon street The man and boy in the small car were lucky to escape serious injury. If the vehicle had been a toot or so to the left it would have hit the beech tree; if it had veered as much to the right it would have smashed into a projecting corner of the Squires' house

The small car had a broken door, and the veranda had several bricks disloged. The hedge round the property was unharmed. Mr Squire once had a wooden fence there, but so many cars smashed through it that eventually he got tired of mending it and replaced it by the present foot-high hedge.