AND NO ACCIDENTS.
It was a day of exceptionally heavy traffic risk, but high speeds were impossible, because there was not room for speed and the positive control would not have tolerated it, and Wellington got through the afternoon without one accident. There was one smash, but no one was hurt. Three railway buses, running empty, were coming in from the Hutt Road in a contrary procession of their own. At the old pedestrian crossing five men disregarded the instruction to go further along Featherston Street and to cross at the islands, hopped through a gap and made for the far footpath. The first and second buses stopped, but the third rolled on to a crash, as the radiator was smashed back and the middle bus driven on to the first which bounced ahead. Those pedestrians jumped all right. Their failure to follow the safer route cost quite a piece of money.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 40, 16 August 1937, Page 10
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152AND NO ACCIDENTS. Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 40, 16 August 1937, Page 10
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