TRUCK GOES OVER BANK
SEVEN MEN INJURED. FAILURE OF STEERING GEAR. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) NELSON, February 5. Seven men were admitted to Nelson Hospital this evening suffering from injuries received when a truck went over a bank in Collins Valley, on the Nelson-Blenheim highway, late this afternoon. The injured were:— Arthur J. Leahy, chest injuries and shock; Rodger Pitcher, broken leg; Thomas Edwin Price, broken rib and internal injuries; Cyril Strafford, broken fingers and shock; Daniel Timmings, head and face injuries; Richard Jary, injured shoulder; Alexander Thompson,’ shock and abrasions. j H As a result of failure of the steering the truck went over the bank ' arid n crashed into the Collins stream. Sev- ' eral of the passengers were on their way to Nelson for the weekend. Mr Thompson was the driver.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19430206.2.20
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 February 1943, Page 2
Word count
Tapeke kupu
132TRUCK GOES OVER BANK Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 February 1943, Page 2
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Times-Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in