A WILD DRIVE

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2489, 16 June 1915, Page 5

A WILD DRIVE

TEAMSTER SEVERELY INJURED. By Telegraph,—Press Association, Auckland, Jim© 15. A man named Danied Edward Daly, employed ty the Auckland City Cornell, met with a serious accident this morning. He was driving a lorry loaded with metal, from a quarry, and had a team of three horses to handle. One was a young animal, and it took fright at a load of timber. The team bolted and Daly, who is an excellent driver, managed to some extent to control his 'horses, but they dashed on fca the footpath. Even then Daly was guiding them well, but an elderly woman was in the track and he had to choose between running her down and a collision with a telegraph post. He saved the woman's_ life, but got sadly knocked about himself. Apparently Daly must have struck the telegraph post himself, although the wheels of the wagon cleared both that cbstacle and also a store. As the wagon bumped off the footpath again on to the street it came to grief, the pole being smashed and the fore-carriage splintered. Daly's left arm is crushed from the shoulder down, and will, in all probability, have to be amputated. His face 'has also been injured.