CAR CRASHES INTO SHOP

Taranaki Daily News, 7 January 1927, Page 6

CAR CRASHES INTO SHOP

CHINESE DRJV®R’S ACCIDENT. Sounds of falling glass and splintering wood reached Mrs. O. E. Jeffries while she was in the kitchen at the back of the baker’s shop in St. Aubyn Street yesterday afternoon. When she went to investigate she found a closed in seven-seater motor-car driven by a Chinaman gently pushing show window and framework a couple of feet into the premises! It happened about 4.15 as Kow Dun, fiuiterer, of Inglewood, was returning from the Breakwater. He was following closely behind a tram travelling to town, he said. It slowed down to pase another on the Cutfield Road loop and though he applied his foot brake he was unable to pull up from a speed that he estimated at 15 miles an hour. The motor-ear mounted the left-hand footpath and collided with the shop, fitting the window apparently on the angle of the doorway and carrying in-, ward some distance the Wall, glass and shelving. Kow Dan had been driving only three weeks. His ear was taken to a garage looking much the wore® for the encounter. The front buffer was forced well back into the left mudguard which was in a very mangled condition, the forepart of the chassis was bent’ and the other mudguard bore evident signs of the collision as well.