COLLISION WITH POST
CAR BADLY DAMAGED
A service car plying between Hutt and the city was very badly damaged when it collided with a telegraph pole on the Hutt road noar Ngahauranga shortly before midnight last night. The car left the bitumen about $fty yards before it came to the post, and the whole of the left side was torn out. The hood was completely destroyed, and other minor damage was done. The wreckage was strewn right across the road. The telegraph post was pushed out of the vertical and broken about 18 feet up, the top being prevented from falling by the wires. The driver of the . car, Baymond Sydney Smith, left the scene shortly after the accident, and was not seriously injured.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 104, 29 October 1931, Page 14
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124COLLISION WITH POST Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 104, 29 October 1931, Page 14
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