MOTOR CAR RUNS AMOK. SEVERAL PEOPLE INJURED.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 16 December 1920, Page 5

MOTOR CAR RUNS AMOK. SEVERAL PEOPLE INJURED.

(BT TELEGRAPH — PHKP.fi ASSOCIATION.)

WELLINGTON, Dec. 15. t +1 fi S People were coming out or the theatres to-night, a motor ear, thrmio-K + f >ht?/y occupant, dashed thioug-h the city streets, the man at vote -r f houi in§ at the top of his \oice: "t*et out ot my way!" Eye-witnesses say the car appeared to be quite out of control, and to be travelling at a very high speed The car negotiated several eor/ers safely ners^T^ the junction of M™' neis and Cuba streets it dashed through a crowd of people waiting for ing tST a T f, coll*f *'ith a ■*»£ ing tram. It knocked down a woman who was about to enter the tram struck others, and then, with a S locked under its wheels, slid • right across to the other side of the rold Jhere it struck a number of pS

and p™? ? f,great + . c°afusion followed, f™L * \ as to those injured is at present unavailable, but it is reported that five persons have already been taken to hospital The number mcludes a man> who* is W tobe the driver of the car. He is in a critical state. One woman suffered a compound fracture of a leg, and ant other had her ankle' broken. Many others received minor injuries J