PHANTOM LORRY

Hokitika Guardian, 21 February 1930, Page 6

PHANTOM LORRY

CAUSE OF MANY ACCIDENTS

AYEIRD EXPEHIENCES

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.]

(Received this day at 8.30. a.m.) LONDON, /ib. 20.

CiHisidenil.de attention ■Ts I'H Missed on the piece of well-made, straight, lonely stretch ol' road near Hyde. Cheshire, which is the centre of weird stories concerning it phantom lorry, rosponsihlc for a complex variety of accidents.

Attention was first drawn to the matter when an inquest was held into the death of a pillion rider on a mot cycle after an accident at the spot. The driver recovered from his injuries and gave evidence that a heavy lorr\ suddenly appeared on the road from nowhere. r ! lie- coroner and the jui\ listened attentively because it is stated eighteen unaccountable accidents at the same spot, within the past eighteen months have not been cleared up. The coroner suggested the jury might go there at midnight.' Curiously enough another car crashed into a hedge at the same spot today. The licensee of the lonely inn nearby speaks of an .unaccountable noise at night-time. The occupants of a lonely cottage are leaving, as U> say they are terrified. The dog often dashed out at sounds hut retained cowed and trembling. Four people were knocked down on the footpath, yet a car passing did not mount the footpath.