HEAD-ON COLLISION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23516, 2 June 1938, Page 8

HEAD-ON COLLISION

MOTOR VAN AND TRAM SMALLGOODS STREWN OVER ROAD ( Special to Daily Times) AUCKLAND, June 1. Scores of pies and other smallgoods intended for sale in city tea rooms during the lunch hour were strewn across Khybcr Pass road as the result of a head-on collision between a light delivery van and a tram car a tew minutes after noon. The van and the cab of the tram were extensively damaged, but neither driver was hurt. Owned by Messrs Hill Bros., Ltd., of Newmarket, and driven by R. Beeby, the van was carrying provisions to the city, and the collision occurred when Beeby was passing a small car driven in the same direction by H. B. Hughes. Practically the entire righthand side of the van was ripped off. the door was torn away and thrown over the van and Hughes's car to the road beyond. Pies, cakes, sandwiches, beetroot, and hard-boiled eggs carried on trays within the van were hurled in all directions, and glass from me door and broken woodwork were scattered widely. Hughes’s car was also struck during the impact, and was pulled up on the footpath nearby with a dented mudguard. Although damaged, the tram proceeded on its outward journey to Epsom Barn. The van was towed to a garage.