FATAL INJURIES
TRUCK DRIVER KNOCKED DOWN AT REAR OF LORRY WHILE TALKING TO INSPECTOR. FATALITY NEAR AUCKLAND. (By —Press Association.) AUCKLAND, This Day. From injuries caused when a motorcar crashed into the rear of a stationary truck opposite the Drury School last evening, Errol Cox, married, 31, a resident of Hamilton, a truck driver, died in hospital today. Six other persons, including two women and a i baby, were injured. The truck had been halted by a Highways inspector for the weighing of the load. • While the inspector and Cox were talking at the rear of the truck the car crashed into it. Projecting iron pipes pierced the windscreen. The passengers were cut by flying glass. Cox was hurled on to the ends of the projecting pipes and was extricated with difficulty.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 February 1939, Page 6
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132FATAL INJURIES Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 February 1939, Page 6
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