LORRY HITS POWER POLE
THREE PEOPLE INJURED SUBURBS THROWN INTO DARKNESS While travelling along the Great South Road, Otahuliu, just after 5 p.m. yesterday, a large motor-lcrry owned by Ambury Bros., milk vendors, swerved in ry ins to pass an oncoming motor-car. which was running ahead of another car travelling in the same direction. The lorry crashed into a wooden power pole carrying the hightension wires, and wrenched the insulators and wire from the pole, plunging part of Otahuhu and the greater portion of Papatoetoe into darkness. The force of the impact shifted the pole over six inches in its concrete foundation. Emergency repair gangs were on the scene at once and had the power through again in two hours. A woman, a baby and a boy, who were passengers on the lorry, were thrown on the footpath. The boy received severe abrasions to his face from the shattered windscreen. The woman and the baby escaped with slight abrasions and shock.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 661, 13 May 1929, Page 16
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