MOTOR-VAN RUNS AWAY.
CRASH INTO SHOP FRONT. WELLESLEY STREET INCIDENT. A motor mishap possessing unusual features occurred in Wcllesley Street East at three o'clock yesterday afternoon. A postal collecting van drew up at the end of Lome Street, and the driver collected the mail from the post office. While he was inside signing for the mail the van started down the slope on its own and, turning practically a half circle, it mounted the pavement and crashed into a millinery shop occupied by Mrs. Woods. A large front plateglass window and the side window were smashed, the pavement being strewn with glass. The driver said he left the van with the brakes hard on, and the engine shut off. He could not explain how it had started away. At the time it struck the windows no one was in the main portion of the shop, the proprietress and assistants being in the workroom at the back. The windows are insured. The van sustained practically no damage. A few minutes after the accident it was backin its former position in Lome Street.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18946, 18 February 1925, Page 8
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