FOOT ON WRONG PEDAL?

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 307, 23 September 1926, Page 10

FOOT ON WRONG PEDAL?

EXTRAORDINARY MOTOR SMASH BAR WRECKS BEDROOM BT TBLEGBAPH.—PBBSB ASSOCIATION. Dunedin, September 22. An extraordinary motor smash took place in Mornington on Tuesday night, which fortunately was not attended by fatal 'results. Charles Foley, an employee of the City Corporation, accompanied by two of his ft .ily, a boy and a girl, were out for a ride in a car, and when turning from Macnee Street into Haig Street the car failed to negotiate the corner, and crashed through a low picket fence into R. I. Gossage’s house, quite one-half of the vehicle being projected inside the bedroom which is situated at the southeast corner of the dwelling. The eastern wall of the house was smashed into kindling wood, and studs were broken as if they had been made of glass. 'The car was stopped in its progress by the fireplace, but not before it had wrecked the room. The wardrobe was knocked over and badly damaged, and the bed 'was crumpled up. Needless to sav the motor-car suffered. One of the front wheels was wrenched off, and a tire was stripned from a wheel. It- is said that the damage to the house will cost in the vicinity of £lOO to repair, and the cost of repairing the car is estimated at about £2O. . _ , Foley escaped serious inmry. but is suffering from shock. The boy received a few scratches and cuts, and the little girl had a bad cut on one of her legs, which reouired surgical attention. 'Folev had onl” recently purchased the ’ car, and it is understood that Tuesday was the first day that he had been on the road with it. Tt is thought that when about to negotiate the corner be nut his foot on the accelerator instead of on the brake.