SAFETY ZONE STRUCK
MOTOR-CAR MISHAP DRIVER SERIOUSLY HURT SYMONDS STREET ACCIDENT Fractured ribs, concussion and abrasions to the scalp were suffered by the driver of a large saloon car which crashed head-on into the end of the safety zone at the intersection of Symonds Street and Karangahape Road, on the Upper Symonds Street side, at about 11 o'clock last night. The injured man is Mr. Harold William Newton Shaw, aged 58, married, a traveller, of 40 Ronaki Road, Koliimarama. He was taken to the Auckland Hospital in a St. John ambulance, his condition at an early hour this morning being serious. Mr. Shaw, who was the only occupant, was driving from Upper Symonds Street, and the car crashed into the concrete end of the zone, splitting it into several pieces. The front of the car was pushed back,, the bonnet being smashed. The windscreen was cracked and the driving wheel twisted. The accident caused a temporary stoppage of traffic, but the tramcars were later able to proceed, as the damaged vehicle had come to rest just clear of the rails.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23339, 6 May 1939, Page 12
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