AUCKLAND TRAMWAY ACCIDENT.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 94, 14 January 1908, Page 7

AUCKLAND TRAMWAY ACCIDENT.

WAGGON JAMMED - AGAINST CENTRE ~ POLE .i ' , ,

(bt TE!,r,GIUriI —SPKCJAL COREESPOHDENT,)'. ' •' . . Auckland, January 13. A serious collision "ticcurred. here,between a tram and. a waggon in 'Syiionds Street this forenoon-: shortly'before eleven o'clock, when. thp niotorman and driver, were 1 -' both badly hurt. The car was full'on leaving'the top of Symonds Street, with a full complement standing, arid consequently the driver was probably not prepared to pull up,,at East Street. Just as the car was about getting thero' it appeared'to a passenger that the niotorman applied the emergency brake, as tho car was brought/up suddenly. .Then someone said " look out," and turning round tho' oye-witness Saw that the front platform had been wrecked. . Tho train had struck one of Craig's lorries: "The motoriuan was not at his post when I looked round," said tho passenger, " and T was informed that ho had:been-thrown 'on to:the roadway, fortunately'clear of the wheels."' ' Sacks of coke from the lorry :were.,lying all about tho platform.' The aproii' and top-covering of the platform wore smashed,''and the motor and brake 1 gear wore also datiiageil; . The lorry was, wedged in' betweoii" tho car and . a tram pole';. .'Both tho 1 front wheels' woro''torn' oft, but'tho' ; osc'apc'd :i injury. None of tho passengers by" tlio car appeared to have been 1 hurt.'-' After; the' Collision the wheels 'con-' to. revolve,; and fome'.ortiidl'passin-' gers'-liiailp 'a , riisli 'out; of tho. car. .The lorry bad;'6vidently. cqine.out;.of .East Street, whero ,: 'the 'driver'had been • watering '. his horses,: and was iri tlio act of crossing to the other side of Symonds Street when the ear rushed into it. Tho motorman's name is Tiikcs', and a man named Tracy,was in Charge of the 'lorry. v .They were. both removed :to a ' private hbspital for jmedical treatment. While* neither of tlio men are seriously injured, they are both suffering' from ■ numerous painful bruises and cuts.