Motor-Car Crashes Into City Hotel Bar
___._‘.__._. DODGING PEDESTRIAN SERIES OF SWERVES An astonished barman stared over the counter at the radiator of a motor-car which came crashing through the doorway of the Metropolitan Hotel at noon today. After a wild career it rested with a front tyre almost on the footrail around the bar. PEDESTRIANS on Queen Street were astounded to see the car, which had been coming down the street. suddenly swerve and crash through glass doors into the hotel premises on the Durham Street side. A heavy post. from which one door swung. was rent and one door was literally ripped from its hinges and pitched in the mass of broken glass littering the floor. The other door had the glass smashed out. The driver was Miss O. Furley. who had a consignment of small goods aboard for a Queen street caterer’s shop; Nearing the hotel corner. she says, she. swerved sharply to avoid running down a boy on a bicycle. Managing to miss him. she was immediately confronted with the danger of knocking down a man crossing the road. She again swerved, avoiding the pedestrian narrowly, but in doing so she was so close to the hotel door %that she could not avoid crashing into ‘it. Despite the shower of glass which signalised her entry into the bar, the Idriver escaped uninjured, though she suffered from shock and was later taken home. The car snflered minor [damage
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 722, 23 July 1929, Page 1
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