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LORRY CAPSIZES.

ACCIDENT ON PUKE ROAD.

DRIVER’S MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.

Puke Road saw the second accident in one day on it when a motor lorry belonging to Messrs Brenan and Co. capsized. Mi’ G. Dent, who was driving one of the company’s two-ton trucks loaded with potatoes, was approaching the Paeroa railway level crossing from the direction of Netherton when, at the corner where the back road branches off, the accelerator jambed. Mr Dent immediately threw the clutch out and applied the brakes, but the wheels evidently failed to grip on the dustv road, and the vehicle, skidding round the corned, slid off the camber of the road and turned turtle, the near side coming to rest on the water-trough. Had it not been for this Mr Dent would have most certainly been killed instantaneously. As it was, he had the very narrowest of escapes from death, being underneath the truck when it came to rest and lying on the road with his head facing the rear, with part of the cab on his back. Mr Dent escaped with a few cuts on one hand and a severe shaking.

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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5470, 4 September 1929, Page 2

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LORRY CAPSIZES. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5470, 4 September 1929, Page 2

LORRY CAPSIZES. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5470, 4 September 1929, Page 2

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