Another incident was reported from Rubicon Road shortly before noon on June 24. In this instance a the Parks as detained for about seven hours.
lie <n the Rubicon Road at about 11.10 a.m, the lorry swerved to avoid a wheelbarrow and some Chinese pedestrians. The driver, having righted his machine, found himself facing a Chinese cycle policeman, bearing directly on him. The two vehicles collided and the gyelist fell to the ground, slightly jured, according to reports.
It seems, the driver reported, that the policeman thought the lorry could not be straightened-up and he swerved to the right, although at first he was on his ows left—the contact being unavoidable a¢ a result.
'The policeman insisted that the lorry should accompany him to the Chhizese, police. station on Rubicon hich the driver mer on the lorry ipping' off to a telephone.
The matter was referred to Bub-ling Well police station, through the efforts of whose officers the lorry and chauffeur were released. The cyclist is in Red Cross Hospital, dt seriously injured.
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