TAXI-CABS TELESCOPED
PECULIAR STREET ACCIDEOT. PEESS ASSOCIATION. CHRISTOHUROH. Fobruary 26. • A strange accident happened in Hereford street between High street and Manchester street this afternoon. Two horses attached to a van belonging to the Xew Zealand Express Company boltod down the street towards High street at a gallop In their career they reached the end of the long line of taxi-cabs pulled up on the stand there. As soon as the horses came close to the la6t taxi-cab they tried to go on each side of it. Tho result was that one of the horses ran along the right side of the cab but the other one dashed into the back of it with Its head and shoulders. The back of the car was splintered, the ironwork being twisted in all directions. The force of the impact thrust the cab forward; it collided violently with the cab In front, «-ind in, way, three of the cabs were , telescoped. The first and second were somewhat severely damaged, the third to a less degree, and a fourth had its rear lamps crumpled 'up. The driver, in the first cab had a very narrow escape- from' being badly injured. A passer-by who saw the horses coming cried out to him, and he just had time to jump out of his cab before the collision took place. The horees were uninjured.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 8046, 27 February 1912, Page 1
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