MOTORS COLLIDE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 21, 23 December 1927, Page 8

MOTORS COLLIDE.

NARROW ESCAPE. ACCIDENT AT SHARP BEND. Per Press Association. CAMBRIDGE, Dec. 23. At about 7.30 o’clock last night a serious motor collision took place between a service car bound for Rotorua and Mr Alfred Smith’s car conveying newspapers. Both vehicles are on the Hamilton-Rotorua service. The impact occurred at a sharp bend on the Kapiro Road at the Cambridge borough boundary. Mr James M. Mooney, an employee of the Forestry Department at Tuai, Wairoa, who was seated' in the rear seat of the service car, sustained two broken ribs through a broken hood support striking him. All the other passengers escaped injury, though they sustained severe shock.

Bqth vehicles met in a side on collision, the whole right side of bqth cars being badly dented, while the top gear of the service car was carried away. The driver of Mr Smith’s car attempted to swerve off the road, but was too late to avoid a collision. He had a miraculous escape from crashing into a telegraph post, but finally collided with a fence.

Both cars were travelling at a smart speed at the time and it is remarkable that they did not capsize. After the collision they were able to be driven iaway under their own power. ,