MOTOR STRIKES POLE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19764, 11 October 1927, Page 8

MOTOR STRIKES POLE.

CAR PRACTICALLY WRECKED INJURIES TO OCCUPANTS. LUCKY ESCAPE FROM DEATH. t [BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.] CHRISTCHURCH, Monday. A young man and two young women were injured, one seriously, when the motor-car in which they were travelling collided with a tramway pole in Page's Road late on Saturday night. The occupants of the car and the nature of their injuries were:—Edna Tunk, aged 21 years, of Brooklyn, Wellington, cuts, bruises and severe shock. Edna Taylor, aged 20 years, of Addingion, bruises and shock. John Andrews, aged 24 years, of Lower Hutt, minor cuts and bruises. The car, a five-seater Buick sedan, was being driven by Andrews toward New Brighton, and at the time of the accident was approaching a tram stop in Page's Road. Two boy s stepped oat to cross to a tramcar when one of the passengers in the motor apparently became alarmed at the possibility of an accident and seized the steering-wheel, causing the motor-car to swerve into a tram pole at the roadside. The impact was so severe that the whole left side of the car was practically torn out and the body was wrecked. Considering the battered state of the car generally the occupants were lucky in not being killed.

Both girls were dazed by the smash and were removed to the Christchurch Hospital. Miss Taylor was treated and discharged, but Miss Tunk is still a patient. Her condition to-day was reported to bo satisfactory. Andrews escaped with a few facial cuts. Miss Tunk and Andrews had only arrived in Christchurch from Wellington on Saturday morning.