PECULIAR ACCIDENT

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7914, 25 September 1911, Page 6

PECULIAR ACCIDENT

An extraordinary accident occurred outside His Majesty's Theatre, Auckland,, on Wednesday evening the “Star”). At the conclusion of the Uur Mies Gibbs” performance there was the Usual efflux of theatregoers and a rush for the cars. In crossing the street a young lady, when almost on-’the tram line, found that she was in danger of being run. down by cither a tram car or a. motor car. To have attempted to cross the rails would seemingly have meant stopping in front of the tram as it tra-v-eliod diovm Queeci street; to nave attempted a retreat likewise appeared to be courting a collision with the motor oar, which was also travelling down Queen street and running abreast of tne tram. The lady did what might have b«en expected under the circumstances, she moved neither way, but fell iu a dead faint on the spot. Both the tram and the motor jammed on ail brakes, and both were brought to a standstill almost directly over the prostrate figure. The lady was picked up by a policeman, and conveyed to her home by the occupiers of the motor car. Her escape from injury, was a fox3tatpat3..oß^,,