PECULIAR TRAM ACCIDENT.

Manawatu Times, Volume LXV, Issue 1868, 12 March 1913, Page 6

PECULIAR TRAM ACCIDENT.

NEW ZEALANDER'S NARROW ESCAPE. A peculiar tram accident occurred near Elizabeth Bay, Sydney, last ■week (says the Sydney Evening News), when a lady passenger, Miss W. Diddams, who is on a visit from New Zealand, had a very narrow escape from serious injury. The tram was moving slowly towards the city, when suddenly a baker's cart crashed into the side of it, the shaft entering the ironwork on one of the outside seats. The cart had been standing near the kerb, but when the driver got in the horse immediately started off, and the accident occurred in less time than it takes to tell xt. The driver of the tram immediate1j pulled up; but the horse became frightened, and rearing and plunging, smashed the shaft and part of the harness. The animal then holted with the cart, but was caught before it had gone any distance. The driver of the cart in the impact was thrown out, but escaped uninjured. Miss Diddams was sitting on the seat where the shaft entered. She, however, saw the cart approaching just in time, and jumped from her seat only a second before the shaft crashed into the woodwork. She ■would certainly have been seriously iujured, or, perhaps, killed, had she been a moment later in moving.