BY A SPLIT SECOND
Four councillors, members of the Works Committee, will have other things than city works and the very bad weather to report upon when they arrive- home this evening, for a round-the-town visit of inspection almost euded very disastrously at the intersection of Taranaki and Buckle > streets. The council car,. running along Buckle street, was met by, a taxi-car running up Taranaki street at considerably more than the regulation eight miles an hour over crossings, but, luckily for everyone concerned, was a split second late in reaching the collision point, the taxi glancing from the front wheel, instead of smashing in square oil, and swerving over to the kcrbing. A verandah post and a letter box .went flying, and the taxi pulled up with its running-board and wheels buckled and with the back of the cab top practically torn off. Fortunately this machine carried no passengers, and no one was hurt on either side.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 65, 14 September 1926, Page 9
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