CAR SMASHES BRIDGE
RESULT OF COLLISION A collision between two motor-cars on the Great South Road at about 6.30 last evening resulted in one of the cars crashing through the stone parapet of the Tamaki Bridge, and coming to a stop with the front wheels overhanging the embankment. One wheel was torn off, bringing the axle to the ground, and it was this which probably saved the car from toppling over into the Tarnaki River, 15 feet below. The other car, which was driven by Mr. H. O. Cr. Southwell, of 28 Dunedin Street, who was accompanied by his wife and three children, was travelling south when the collision occurred. A running-board of the car was torn off. and one tyre burst. The occupants of both cars esca.ped Injury.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 887, 3 February 1930, Page 16
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