CAR'S WILD CAREER

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 18, 23 January 1939, Page 10

CAR'S WILD CAREER

RESULT OF COLLISION

ENDS UP AT OFFICE COUNTER

(By Telegraph— Press Association.)

HASTINGS, This Day.

The most 'spectacular accident seen in Hastings for many year,s occurred on Saturday afternoon when a delivery car, after colliding with a light car at the intersection of Karamu and Avenue Roads, swerved across the footpath, ran up a steep fliglft of five steps, and then smashed through two sets of doors to come to rest beside the counter in the main vestibule of the "Daily Mail" newspaper office. Neither the driver of the delivery car, Mr. D. W. Malcolmson, of the Lands and Survey Department, Wellington, nor Miss Ellen Allison, Hastings, occupant of the light car, was injured. A "Daily Mail" employee, Miss M. Fearn, received bruises and. shock when she was struck by a flying piece of timber. Another employee, Miss Y. Hinds, had passed through the doors to the street a few seconds before the crash.

The front of the newspaper office was completely wrecked, and had anyone been near the counter they >vould not have escaped serious injury.

The office doorway is only half an inch wider than the outside width of the delivery car, and had the car swerved to one side or other it would have struck one of the heavy concrete pillars which flank the entrance. Owing to the tightnes sof the fit it took over an hour to get the car out Damage to the office was considerable, but neither cars were seriously damaged.