The Archive · 1940

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Car Crashes

Six Chinese avera injured last night ili à motor cár accident in Avenue Joffre, Speeding eastward at about 50 miles an hour, à Chinese-driven car swerved düt to pass aliother car, fóünd it impossible to get by because a car was approaching, and so swerved in to the left again to find itself. almost oh top of a pedestrian island which the car veered around, ät high oily to crash head on into & tree on the edge of the paverüéHt, The rear of the car swung round, bowling over two Chinese pedestrians on its Way into a porcelain shop. The pedestrians got up with minor injuries only but the owlier of the car, sitting beside the driver, had banged his head against the windshield, fracturing his skull. The driver's face and head were badly cut while the two passengers sitting in the fear seat suffered a broken thigh and deep face cuts respectively.

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