RUNAWAY TRAM.
MISHAP AT DUNEDIN.
PASSENGER INJURED,
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) - DUX EDIX, Wednesday. Through, it is supposed, the brakes failing to act, the trameur that was Timed to leave Ojxdio at 7.d0 this mornlag, ran down the hill a few minutes before.that time, and to those on the street, at the time it appeared as it' a serious calamity might result. There were two passengers aboard, and the greasiness ofthe rails gave the ear added momentum. As it rounded the bend, a man named Thomas W. Hall, aged .'if""years, fearing that the ear was goipg to jump the rails and' would crash into the gully at the foot, leapt off as the ear was travelling at considerable speed. He was badly slutlien and received injuries to his head, ■|p which later necessitated his removal to hospital. The other passenger stuck to the car, oi which control was regained after some 400 or 500 yards had been traversed and the levei ground was readied. The car was not damaged.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 7 April 1927, Page 5
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168RUNAWAY TRAM. Wairarapa Daily Times, 7 April 1927, Page 5
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