MIRACULOUS ESCAPE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 71, 10 April 1937, Page 5

MIRACULOUS ESCAPE

-Own Cosrespondent.)

Loaded Metal Lorry Goes Over Bank R0AD GIVES WAY

(By Telegraph-

WAIROA, This Day. An amazingly narrow escape from serious injury or death was experienced by Mr. T. Morgan, the driver Qf a metal lorry, near Lake Waikaremoana about 7.30 o 'clock yesterday morning. "When negotiating a sharp bend the road gave way at the outer edge and the vehicle, which was fully loaded, was burled down the hillside, somersaulting eeveral times and coming to Test about 20 feet below the roadway, resting on- its wheels So far as is known the only injury received by the driver was a bump on the head, and he was able to scramble back on to the road unaseisted. The accident happened about two miles from Lake House, and it appears that just as the driver of the metal lorry approached a bend he saw a service car coming towards him from the direction of Rotorua and he pulled as far over on to the left-hand-side of the road as possible to allow the service car to pass, and then pulled up altogether. He was just about to start off again when, it is stated, the roadway gave way under the heavy vehicle and its load, and it erashed over the bank and somersaulted several times. The driver of the service ear was in the aet of going to Mr. Morgan 's assistance, and he was a much-surprised man to see him crawl out and start to scramble back on to the roadway Sergeant D. Clark and Conetable J. McAlpine, of Wairoa, have left for Waikaremoana to make further inquiries. The lorry is owned by Mr. Olsen, a metal contraetor, of Napier, but it is not known to what extent it was damaged in the mishap„