PARKED CAR RUNS AWAY
WELLINGTON WOMAN INJURED. CRASH INTO JEWELLER’S SHOP. By Telegraph—Press Association". i} Wellington, Jan. 21. Parked in steep Boulcott Street, a motor-car ran away yesterday afternoon and in its career downhill it struck a woman pedestrian on the pavement outside a jeweller’s shop at the Willis Street intersection. . The car had evidenly not been put in gear, and when the brakes failed to hold it began to run downhill backwards. Quickly gathering speed, it mounted the kerbing and shattered the window of a jeweller’s shop. Mrs. W. M. Ellis, Wadestown, was knocked down, receiving abrasions to her left leg, an incised wound on her hand, and shock, while another pedestrian, a man, narrowly escaped being hit.
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Taranaki Daily News, 29 January 1934, Page 9
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