The Archive · 1937

Fire Engine and

CAR COLLIDE

Two Foreigners and Five Chinese Injured Two foreigners and five Chinese firemen received injuries of varying degrees at about '8 p.m. yesterday, when a fire engine and a motor car collided at the corner of Hankow and Siechuen Road. The car, badly smashed on the side was still lying on the pavement at a late hour last might, the other vehicle being only slightly damaged.

Mr. William Ross, who was last night in a serious condition with concussion and.a cut on the elbow, and Mr, Archie Sinclair, who was only slightly injured, were in he private car, with the latter at the wheel, when the accident occurred. The fire engine at that time was returning from a fire in Thorne Road and travelling in Hankow Road in a westerly direction to the Central Fire Station: Five firemen were thrown on the ground in the impact. Two of them were detained in hospital last night, one being in a serious condition,

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