SEVERE COLLISION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19386, 22 July 1926, Page 8

SEVERE COLLISION.

MOTOR-CAR AND TRUCK. BOTH SERIOUSLY DAMAGED. DRIVER'S NARROW ESCAPE. A collision between a motor-car aild motor-truck occurred last evening m Dominion Road, Mr. L. Brierly, tobacconist, driver of the car, having a remarkable escape. The truck, owned by Mr. F. Spooner, plasterer and contractor, Mount Roskill. had been left outside Mills' grocery store shortly before sis o'clock. Mr. Brierly's car in passing struck the truck at the rear with such force that it carried it along the road for about 40ft. There the truck broke away and the car swerved, hitting a telegraph post. The impact stopped a headlong dash for a brick shop nearby. As the result of being hit by the car, the back axle of the truck was broken, the rear left wheel and the front right wheel splintered and the running-board ripped away and buckled. The car itself hit the post so heavily that the radiator was crumpled in concertina fashion, the engine being smashed and the parts scattered in all directions. The windscreens of both vehicles were also shattered. There was no one in the truck, and Mr. Brierly was alone in the car. The broken glass of the windscreen cut his head, but apart from that he was not badly injured. His escape was described by witnesses of the incident as miraculous.