A TRAMWAY COLLISION.

Greymouth Evening Star, 21 May 1907, Page 3

A TRAMWAY COLLISION.

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AUCKLAND, This Day.

Two Onehunga tramcars came into collision last AVednesday morning at Newmarket, and although a considerable amount of damage was done thero was no serious personal injury. The accident was due to a car jumping the points, but for the remarkable promptitude and presence of mind shown by the motorman the cars would have been smashed into match wood. Car No. 51 was running into town from Onehunga, and reached the Newmarket firebell a few minutes before nine o'clock. As it approached the curve that takes the track into Kyber Pass the Onehunga car travelling in the opnosite direction, came on the curve, but the city bound train jumped the rails at tho point, and in an instant the car was right across the outer track. Motorman Taylor in charge of No. 51 put on the brakes as hard as possible, and then jumped into the roadway, realising that there was bound to bo a smash. Tho other car though going slowly in consequence of the curve, was too close to be nulled up, and it crashed into No 51 near tho front, smashing the woodwork from the roof downwards, and nutting the controlling gear and brakes completely out of action. Several panes of glass on car No 51 were broken, and the fragments of glass slight injured the hand of Miss E. Brady, of Howick.