SYDNEY TRAMS COLLIDE
FIFTA’ PEOPLE INJURED. [BY CAHI.E —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] (Recd. December 11, noon.) SYDNEY’, December 11. Over fifty people were injured, when two trams collided, with terrific force, at PJoore Park, City, late last night. Thirty-four people were taken tc the hospital for treatment. Eight were admitted. Ambulance officers found the inured lying in the darkness amid me wreckage and splintered glass. Both trams were crowded, and when one crashed into the rear of the other, many passengers were thrown from their seats to the roadway. Several were hurled through the panes o' glass dividing the compartments. In addition to ambulances, _ taxi? were requisitioned to rush the injurec to the hospital.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 11 December 1939, Page 5
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