ROOM WRECKED BY RUNAWAY LORRY
CRASHED THROUGH WALL Press Association. WELLINGTON, To-day. A lorry with a load of seven or eight tons ran down a steep hillside in Daniell Street. Xewtown. yesterday and crashing through a concrete wall stove in the side of a house, wrecking a room and smashing much of its contents. A woman in the house next door was thrown down and articles hurled from the shelves, causing her to think that it was an earthquake. Fortunately no one was in the front of the house at the moment. The lorry had its wheels chocked and the brake was on, but it appeared to start off on its own account.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 178, 18 October 1927, Page 9
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113ROOM WRECKED BY RUNAWAY LORRY Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 178, 18 October 1927, Page 9
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