Amazing Motor Accident in Nanking Road Caught between two trams out side the Palace Hotel in Nanking Rend on Friday, a moter car was crumpled up like a concertina and three foreigners "a narrow exeape from death, having to craw! fut of the car from the smashed thy in one of the most unusual a silents Sever recorded, in Shangha
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A Ford Fordor Sedan had crossed Suchuen Road at the intersection with Nanking Road at 1.54 p.m, One minute ater, in front of the Palace Hotel Bar, it was a com-pits reek the resounding crash inging to'their windows the ten: anis in rooms. in both the. Palace find Cathay" Holes, as. well Hrousands of once-goers, Half agen Insurance ment wore there According to the statement of enosses.. the car, driven by, lise A. da Cruz, her brother and silver as passengers and all tire fitting in the front seat, attempted fo pass on the Night hand side, an eastbound tram vith taller. What femapired inthe next few sends, no one is able to tell a coherent ale ther than that tie westbound tram fundwichal the motor car between the two. The impact and. position of the car was suiicient to. throw the eastbound (rant clear' of the tracks.
'A ctirsory inspection of the motor cat reveated that all four wheels and fires were damaged beyond reiF All four doors were smashed by both axles were bent, "and the tip was torn: hi "oft "the tend Tights were Turned while the engine appeared to. have been torn from Ai'mountingss. Tonnens and LoD were In pieces, while all had stream fd'on the asphalt
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