SPECTACULAR SMASH

Evening Star, Issue 21900, 11 December 1934, Page 6

SPECTACULAR SMASH

LORRY OUT OF CONTROL CRASHES INTO GAR AND HOUSE Stuart street presented all the appearance of an auction mart at about 7.30 this morning following a spectacular motor smash in which a lorry belonging to Bing Chun, a Chinese market 'gardener, crashed into the verandah of a house at 51 Stuart street occupied by Mr G. W. Laidlaw, the- street and front of the property being liberally strewn with cabbages and new potatoes when the lorry made its unexpected onslaught upon the house. The vehicle was loaded with cabbages and potatoes, and was proceeding -Stuart street when one of the cases fell off. the driver stopping to pick up. Before bo realised what bad happened. however, bis vehicle started to run backwards, the brakes apparently refusing to function. Gathering momentum and' with an excited Chinese in hot pursuit, it careered down .Stuart street, its course being stopped by a car parked near the footpath. The lighter vehicle was pushed into the fence, the lorry smashing into the house, rolling over on its side, and bringing down with it a mass of brick and mortar, while the lorry’s contents were bespattered all over the place in wild confusion. The car, owned by Mr Albert George O’Neill, was badly damaged, but the lorry escaped more lightly. The damage to the house is estimated at about £2O. a portion of the front verandah being carried away.