JAMMED IN TUNNEL
Members of a Dunedin family on holiday in Christcnurch escaped serious injury yesterday when their parked car, hit by a truck, went into a pedestrian tunnel, 6ft wide, in the City Council parking building on the corner of Manchester and Gloucester streets. The mini-car was parked on the north side of Gloucester street The husband and 10-year-old son were in the front seat, and the wife and the family dog in the back.
The truck hit the right rear of the car, which was not in gear, nor were the brakes on. The left front wheel hit the edge of the gutter as the car shot forward. The car then swerved in front of
a parking meter, crossed the footpath at rightangles, and shot down the pedestrian tunnel, the floor of which goes down in two shallow steps from the inside edge of the footpath.
This is the only opening in the ground-floor wall of the parking building within a chain each side of where the car was parked. The car jammed underneath on the steps, but almost its entire length was in the tunnel.
The wife suffered bruises and shock, and was taken to the City Council traffic offices to recover.
The car was severely damaged at the back.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30945, 29 December 1965, Page 3
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