DANGEROUS PRACTICE.
HANGING ON MIOTGR LORRIES. BOY BADLY INJURED. A dangerous practice indulged in by children of hanging to the back o¥ motor lorries; caused a- serious accident, resulting in a seven-year-old boy named William Morrison being admitted to the Stratford Hospital, where he lies in a serious condition. With two other boys he clung to the bajck of a motor lorry, and, when trying to get down, had one arm caught .betwen a wheel and the mudguard, being dragged some, distance before falling to the road. The driyer of the lorry w.as not aware that the children were clinging behind, or that an accident had■occurred. One of the boy Morrison’s toes wag; torn off and his left forearm badly lacerated, practically all, the skin being oq. He was also badly bruised and is suffering ’from shock. 1
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4948, 8 March 1926, Page 3
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138DANGEROUS PRACTICE. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4948, 8 March 1926, Page 3
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