AMBULANCE SMASH
DRIVER AND ATTENDANT INJURED. COLLISION WITH TRAM. WANGANUI, Aug. 22. Tfie driver and attendant of a Wanganui Free Ambulance were injured when the ambulance, on its way to a call for assistance, collided with a tram at the corner of Liverpool Street- and Victoria Avenue this evening. The driver, Mr H. Riordan, received a fractured collarbone, and the attendant, Mr Arthur Wansbrough, a badly-cut noso. They were taken in another ambulance to hospital, where their condition is reported as satisfactory. The ambulance was extensively damaged, but no damage was done to the tram.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 23 August 1935, Page 7
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95AMBULANCE SMASH Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 23 August 1935, Page 7
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