THE PHANTOM LORRY
A MOTORING MYSTERY
GHOST ON A CHESHIRE ROAD
(Beceived 21st February, 2 p.m.)
LONDON, 20th February.
Considerable attention is focused on a piece of well made, straight, lonely streteli of road near Hyde, Cheshire, which is the centre of weird stories concerning a phantom lorry, responsible for a complex variety of accidents. Attention was first drawn ■■ ■to the case when at the inquest on a motor-cycle pillionist, killed there, the/driver, who had recovered from his injuries, stated in evidence that a heavy lorry suddenly appeared on • the road from nowhere. , . . ' :
The Coroner and 'the Jury listened attentively, because it was stated that eighteen unaccountable accidents in the past eighteen months had occurred at the same spot, arid had not been cleared up. The Coroner suggested that the jury might go there at midnight.
Curiously enough, another car crashed.into the hedge at the same spot today. The licensee of a lonely inn nearby speaks of unaccountable noises in the night time. The occupants of the only nearby cottage, are leaving. They say they are terrified; Their dog often dashed out at the sounds, and returned cowed and trembling. Four people were knocked clown on the footpath, yet the car passing did not mount the footpath. ' ' .
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 44, 21 February 1930, Page 10
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