From the Brisbane Courier Mail 29 April 1944
Traffic accidents with Brisbane City Council trams rose sharply during the WWII years. Commissioner Carroll of the Queensland Police wrote to Brigadier Donaldson, the Commanding Officer of Base Section 3, US Army requesting greater care by the drivers of US Military vehicles. Commissioner Carroll pointed out that between January 1942 and August 1943 Australian Defence Department vehicles had collided with BCC trams on 645 occasions and in the same period US vehicles had collided with BCC trams on 794 occasions.
Those crap Yank drivers had better pull up their socks and take a leaf out of the excellent Australian drivers who had only collided with trams 645 times in 18 months!
