FIRE ENGINE IN COLLISION.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 263, 4 October 1933, Page 7

FIRE ENGINE IN COLLISION.

LORRY OVERTURNED. ACCIDENT IN CITY. When the Fire Brigade answered a call at about 11.30 a.m. to-day a- collision took place between the fire engine and a light motor lorry at the corner of Andrew Young Street and Main Street. The lorry was capsized, but the driver, Mr W. Procter, who was the sole occupant, was not injured. The fire engine continued on its way and the motor lorry was lifted on to its wheels again by several men. “I could hear the fire engine’s siren but could not tell where it was,” Mr Procter told a “Standard” reporter. “I was very surprised when I saw the engine on top of me.” Mr Procter was proceeding towards the Square and the fire engine turned out of Andrew Young Street to go in the same direction. The motor lorry was struck a glancing blow at the left front wheel. The mudguard was badly buckled, the front bumper bent, the spring bent out of alignment and the glass in the left hand side door to the cab smashed, while the wood of the front of the cab, just behind the hinges holding the door, was split. After the police had taken the customary records, the motor lorry was driven away under its own power. Nobody on the fire engine, which was the newest addition, was hurt. The total damage was a bent right rear mudguard and slight damage to the outside member of the dual tyres. “It is the first accident that the brigade has had with a motor —the first in 20 years,” Superintendent W. H. Barnard said. “I looked round to see if the fireman nearest the damage was hurt. He was not so we continued on. Although I did not see it, I was told later by another of those on the engine that the motor lorry turned over quite slowly.” The call which the brigade was answering was to a chimney fire.