AVOIDING A CAT

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 62, 10 September 1937, Page 7

AVOIDING A CAT

MOTORIST'S COSTLY SWERVE

(From "The Post's" ReprosentatWe.) ■ SYDNEY, August 27.

A ..cat running across a Sydner suburban road shortly before dawn one morning this week was responsible for a series of unexpected happenings.

Neville Hayes, driving a motor-car, tried to avoid the cat. In swerving, the car crashed into an electric« light post, and was several damaged; the driver was: badly cut over an. eye, about 30 electric lights were fused, and fires were started in two switchboards some distance away.

The impact when the car. struck the electric light post broke off two overhead wires. The lights in the road immediately went out, most, of the 3C gas-filled lamps in the locality being fused. At the same time there were pyrotechnic displays at a nearby police station and at a bakery,. where the broken wires caused a .short cfi»c«st ia the electric switches., , Firemen rushed to the bakery and extinguished the flames, which were igniting the woodwork about the switchboard. Firemen also went to the police station, and for a time it seemed that the, building was in danger of being burnt out. Flames had extended to the verandah and wall near the' switchboard. The electee -wirw'were cut 6tL,ip£^-J)Mjmß-