STRANGE CAR SMASH.

Grey River Argus, 23 September 1926, Page 5

STRANGE CAR SMASH.

TYRO DRIVER. RUNS INTO A HOUSE. DUNEDIN, September 22. An extraordinary motor smash took place in Mornington ou Tuesday night, which, fortunately, was not attended by fatal results. Charles Fohy, employee of the City Corporation, aV«>m•panied by two of his family, a boy and a girl, were out for a ride in a Dodge car, and, when turning from MacNee Street into Haig Street, the ear failed to negotiate the corner, and crashed ■through a low picket fence into L, I. Gossage’s house, quite one half of the vehicle being projected inside a bed■room, which is situated at the south st corner of the dwelling. The eastern wall of tho house was smashed into .kindling wood, and the studs were bioken as if they had been made oi glass. The car was stopped in its progress by a fireplace, but not before it had wrecked the room. A wardrobe was knocked over and badly damaged, and a bed was crumpled up by t.ic impact. Needless to say the motor car suffered. One of the front wheels was wrenched off, and the tire was stripped from the wheel. It is said that the damage to the house will cost in tho vicinity of £lOO to repair, and the cost of repairing the car is estimated at about £2O. Fohy CSC ®l’'’ L serious injury, but is suffenng shock. The boy received only a fe scratches and cuts, and the little gnl had a bad. cut on one of her which required surgical attention Fohv had only recently purehm- d the ear,"and it is understood that luesd.i was tho first dav he had been on the road with it. It is thought that when about to negotiate the come l , i•_! his foot on the accelerator instead ot on the brake.