CABLE CAR MISHAP
ELDERLY WOMAN INJURED [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION) DUNEDIN, Friday An elderly woman received injuries necessitating her removal to hospital, and other passengers suffered bruises, when a Mornington cable car collider! with a stationary trailer at a tram terminus. The car was reaching its destination from the city when a bunch developed in the rope behind the eripper. The gripman was unable to check the car's progress in time to prevent striking the trailer, which was pushed off the line across the turntable to come to rest against the kerb outside a shop. Mrs. Mary White was bumped off the tram, receiving injuries to the head and face.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23281, 25 February 1939, Page 15
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110CABLE CAR MISHAP New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23281, 25 February 1939, Page 15
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