Yesterday afternoon a chauffeur of one of the Chinese Eastern Rail way cars caused much damage and serious injury to people in the town owing to his reckless driving. Driving along the main street leading from the Railway Offices to the contT® of the town, he ran at full spyed into a sledge which was to the main sttest. The passenger, a lady, wife of one of the heads of the CER, general otices, was thrown on to the pavetaent where she received very severe injuries to the head, The driver of the sledge was also thrown out and slightly injured. The chauffeur of the ear seeing the damage he had te clone, immediately drove off and attempted to hide his tracks by driving about in the neighbourhood. Whether the incident had. thrown him into a nervous ware or for some other reason, he ran full tilt into a motor bus another corner, half an hour Inver. The bus was thrown violent-on to the pavement and broke hrough a paling of a large garde but was not overturned. Three passengers were injured by broken' Class and the violence of the shoe The car having been brought to 4 standstill through the collision, the chauffeur was arrested and compelled to convey the injured persons: to the hospital. The speed at which C.ER, cars drive along the streets, has' always been the subject of comment, and at present, when the snow and ice causes tyres to skid, such furious driving should be pro: hibited and strong measures adopted with chauffeurs who do not obey the police regulations,
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