MILK VAN CRUSHED BETWEEN TRAM CARS
DRIVER'S LUCKY ESCAPE. (Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Nov. 2. With his milk van crushed between two moving tramcars, Henry Daniel Spence, o£ Francis Street, Burwood, had a miraculous escape from death this morning. The accident happened when the traffic on the Ferry R-oad was heavy. Spence, who was driving the van, turned out of Olliviers Road in the direction of the city, running alongside a city-bound tramcar. Before ho had gone 20 yards he collided with an out ward-bound tram, the light motor being crushed between it and the in-ward-bound car. Spence was pinned into what was the driving seat, by the wheel. He managed to get out through where the windshield had been, with no worse injuries than a bruised chest and a small cut on one finger. The van was extricated by means of a horse, and dray.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 71, Issue 261, 3 November 1928, Page 8
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