MOTOR SMASH
COLLISION WITH TRAMCAR. DRIVER SERIOUSLY HURT. A MIDNIGHT INCIDENT. (by TELEGRAPH. PRESS ASSOCIATION.) WELLINGTON, July 1. A taxi-driver named George Ryan crashed into a stationary tramcar by the Thorndon sheds at midnight. The tram was at a standstill, and Conductor Green was changing the pole, when the motor-car, travelling, it is alleged, at twenty miles per hour on the tramlines, came up without warning and struck the tram. Green was knocked down, but managed to roll over in the mud before the tram coulcl move over him. Motormau Peacock was pasisng through the tram and was nearly thrown out by the shock of the impact,' but recovered. - He went out to the motor-car and found Ryan ymg unconscious on the front seat, i'lie 'windshield was smashed, the steering wheel was broken, and this was damming the driver against the back of the seat. Ryan was sent to the hospital in a serious condition. The accident is inexplicable at present, but it is surmised that the tram, being in darkness for the moment, and Kyan having his own lights dimmed, did not notice it standing in the roadwav.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 1 July 1925, Page 7
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