MOTOR COLLIDES WITH ELEPHANTS.
Two sisters motoring along the Great North Road to London in the early hours of one morning had an adventure more suited to the jungle than to a prosaic English highway. Their car was a sports model. “It was pitch dark and raining hard,” said one of the sisters to a “Daily Chronicle” representative, “when ten yards in front of the bonnet loomed two elephants, a camel, a spotted horse, a zebra-donkey hybrid, and a keeper. The next moment there was a broadside crash into the elephants. When wo recovered ourselves our heads were sticking through the roof of the car, the axle was broken, and the elephants were frisking about amongst the wreckage and venting their displeasure with their trunks.” Men in charge of a lorry some distance away gave the sisters shelter, and later in the morning their brother, wlu was in search of them, was alarmed to find the ruins of the car by the roadside.
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Dunstan Times, Issue 3382, 11 July 1927, Page 7
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