HEAD ON COLLISION.
MOTORMAN SERIOUSLY INJURED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Friday. A head-on collision between two train cars occurred on the Biccarton road to-night, as. a result of which Motorman James Thomson had a leg broker and the cars concerned were badly damaged. Thomson was driving an outward ear. How the accident actually happened is not quite clear, but it is stated that on approaching the loop the trolley pole of the inward car, driven by Motornian Blakeway, left the wire. Blakeway jumped clear, but Thodison was pinned amongst the wreckage, and it took nearly an hour to extricate him. None of the passengers were hurt.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 46, Issue 14099, 17 April 1920, Page 4
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