LORRY GOES OVER A BANK
ONE MAN KILLED. FIVE INJURED.
Dunedin, Last Night
While returning to Dunedin from a Public Works construction camp at Mount Cargill on the Main North road, a heavy lorry containing eight men crashed over a twenty-loot bank.
One of the occupants, 1). Reid, an ex-corporation employee, was killed outright, and live were injured, three seriously.
The injured in the hospital are: — Kenneth McKenzie, John Myer and Frederick Coll. It is believed that the accident was caused by the collapse of the steering gear.
Usually twenty men travel on the lorry to and from the city, but by a lucky chance, the passengers numbered only eight.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3016, 27 March 1926, Page 2
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110LORRY GOES OVER A BANK Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3016, 27 March 1926, Page 2
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