A Chinese pedestrian, carrying a pot of what looked like earth, was knocked down and seriously injured by a motor cycle bearing licence number 327 shortly after noon yesterday, almost immediately in front of the Foreign Y.M.C.A. building on Bubbling Well Road. A traffic jam resulting as all south-bound traffic had to be held up, the man lying on the tramway track in an unconscious condition.
An emergency ambulance was summoned and arrived a few minutes later, conveying the injured man to the Lester Hospital for Chinese where his injuries were diagnosed as a fracture of the base of the scull.
The Chinese motor-cyclist who was involved in the accident fell from his machine and fortunately escaped unharmed with the exception of a black eye.
The accident was witnessed by many office employees who were on their way to lunch and a line of tramcars extenting almost to Mohawk Road, held up traffic as a result of the accident. Two minutes after the ambulance had departed however. traffic became normal again. Sinza Police station is investigating the ac-
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