Train Jumps Track, No One Injured
(P.A.)
DUNEDIN, This Day.
Jumping the track opposite the Queen Mary maternity hospital, a Castle Street tram travelled • about 40 yards to crash through two street front fences of private properties this morning.
No one was injured and even a basket of eggs carried by a woman passenger escaped intact. The vehicle travelled on the carriageway parallel with the tracks for 25yds and then swung across the road to mount the footpath and crash through an/ olearia hedge and wooden fence, Eight feet of the hedge was ripped out and about three feet of the paling fence and also four feet of a wpoden boundary fence. The cause of the accident was not obvious, but the track is in poor condition.
The tram was back on the rails in 40 minutes.
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Northern Advocate, 28 August 1947, Page 7
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