SERIOUS INJURIES
WOMAN STRUCK BY TRAM
Severe head injuries and other injuries were received by Miss Florence Waterhouse, aged 21, of 14, Gnepu road, Kilbirnie, when "she was knocked down by a tramcar in Hobart street, Miramar, shortly after 7 o'clock' last.night.
1 Miss Waterhousc had gone around the back of a Miramaf-bound tram, from which she had alighted, and was struck by a tram coming in the opposite direction. The squally 'conditions at the time made visibility bad, and it is understood1 that the 'driver of the tram did not see the woman until the accident occurred. He immediately applied the emergency brake, but Miss Watorhouso had become wedged beneath ,the tram, which had to be jacked up to reluaso her.
The City Ambulance took her to the Hospital, and her condition to-day is reported to be .very serious:
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 142, 18 June 1931, Page 13
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140SERIOUS INJURIES Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 142, 18 June 1931, Page 13
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