Sheffield Independent – Wednesday 27 February 1929

Lorry Crashes Into Houses.

Leeds Men Injured At Wombwell.

An alarming road accident in which three Leeds men are involved occurred in Barnsley road, Wombwell, yesterday afternoon. They were Tom Hanson, 61, Moorview road. Dewsbury road, Leeds; Ernest McHugh, 69, Middleton street, Leeds; and Tom Hetherington, 10, Willow place, Kirkstall, Leeds.

They were riding in front of heavy lorry—of which McHugh was the driver which was proceeding in the direction Leeds and had reached the outskirts of Wombwell when it struck a tramcar, turned off the road at right angles, mounted a stone wall, three feet high, and finally crashed, head on, into row of stone-built cottages.

The front of the lorry was smashed, and the glass panels being shattered, the men were cut with flying glass. .McHugh’s face was gashed and it was necessary for Dr. Barret to stitch wounds.

The occupants of the cottages had narrow escapes. The front doors were crashed in.

Mrs. Taylor, widow, of 12. Mitchell terrace, said she was a few feet away from the door when the lorry crashed into the house. The neighbours were the bride to find her uninjured. She thought it was a miracle that while the wall of the house was smashed a photograph her late husband, which was on the wall, had not been damaged, not even the glass being broken.

The tramcar was the route of the District Light Railway, and the lorry owned the Melbourne Breweries. Ltd., feeds. The road was covered with ice at the time.