Lorry Crashes Over Bank and Kills Two

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 987, 2 June 1930, Page 1

Lorry Crashes Over Bank and Kills Two

TRAGEDY NEAR NAPIER TWO OTHERS BADLY HURT Press Association NAPIER, Today. Two men were killed, one seriously injured and one slightly injured when a motor-truck went off the road in the vicinity of the Waikari and down a 100 ft bank to the creek bed below on Saturday afternoon. The victims*were: Killed.—Alexander Mclntosh, aged about 45, a farmer, of Putorino, a married man with six children. William Johnston, aged 25, a farm labourer, of Putorino, whose parents live in Dannevirke. Injured.—A. E. Porter, a farmer, of Putorino, seriously injured, who was taken to the Napier Hospital. V. J. Barry, a farmer, of Putorino, bruises and shock; able to go home. Porter was the driver of the lorry and the party was returning from a meeting of the Domain Board, of which Barry was chairman. Half a mile after leaving Waikari on the NapierWairoa road at a cutting considered dangerous because the driver’s view is obstructed, they met a car driven by a man named Holden, an employee on the Kotemaori Tunnel. ROOM TO PASS? Porter had the inside running and it appeared that the vehicles had room to pass. Plolden’s car, however, grazed the rear of the truck and the impact turned the latter’s nose toward the bank, over which it ran before Porter could regain control and turned over several times before landing on its wheels in the creek bed. Mclntosh and Johnston suffered fractured skulls. Barry, Vfho was riding on the back of the lorry, was thrown off early and escaped lightly. Porter was picked up from under the lorry.