DAY OF SKIDS ON BRITISH ROADS

Southland Times, Issue 23389, 22 December 1937, Page 5

DAY OF SKIDS ON BRITISH ROADS

SEVERE FROST AND HEAVY FOG

COLLISIONS AND CRASHES FREQUENT (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright) (Received December 21, 7.55 p.m.) LONDON, December 20. Severe frosts persisting throughout England, combined with fog, have made the roads the worst in. memory. It was a day of skids and crashes on glassy, frozen roads. A military lorry and a bus collided 'at Windsor, injuring five Grenadier Guards and a girl in the bus. Five British soldiers from Dundre Fort, Donegal, were injured when 20 were trapped in an overturned bus. They were unable to escape until passers-by heard their groans and released them. The liner Queen Mary was unable to call at Plymouth and carried her passenders on to Southampton. There were a lion and four lionesses in three cages which were ditched in the fog, between Leicester and Nottingham. Another lorry crashed into the cages. The bars of the lion’s cage were smashed, but the lion refused to leave because of the intense cold. He shivered until the trainer secured his cage. Flares warned other traffic of the animals’ presence.