Tram Meets Motor Cycle Head On
THREE RIDERS INJURED,
Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Last Night. Three people are in Wellington hospital as a result of a collision between a motor cycle and sidecar and a tram at Glcnmore street viaduct shortly after 5 o’clock this afternoon.
The injured arc Daniel Hill, 35 Piunket street Karori, aged 35; Stanley Watson, 35 Plunkct street, Karori, aged 24; and Jack O’Keefe, 30 Devon street, aged 20. The three men who were injured were on a motor cycle which was travelling up Gicnmoro street while the car was coining down. At tho viaduct where flic reformation work is being carried out, making the road a very narrow one. the two vehicles met in a head-on collision. The tram, it is said, was slowing up at the time of the impact. All occupants of the cycle were thrown from their mount and suffered head injuries. Hill, when flying from the cycle, struck the glass on the front of the tram and passed through it to the platform on which the motorman was stationed. Late this evening Hill's condition was serious but the others were progressing satisfactorily.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6764, 23 January 1932, Page 6
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