LORRY DESCENDS BANK.
t DRIVER'S Luoxv ESCAPEACCIDEN’I‘ NEAR AROHENA. (Times‘ Representative). TE AWAMU’I‘U, Wednesday. A lucky escape from injury was ex:perienced by Mr F. H. Bird, a lorry 'driver, on Monday afternoon when. Safter leaving the road, his lorry roiled labout 260 ft. down a bank on the Te lAwarnutu—Arohena Road. Bird was driving a lorry owned by :Mr T. Kelly. of Arohena, and when he was rounding a bend on the Mangers Hill, about 35 miles from Te Awamutu. another car approached and in an endeavour to avoid it Bird took his vehicle too close to the bank. He Jumped clear as it began to roll down the bank. Vehicle aomoruum. The lorry somersauited about 'seven or eight times in its career down the steep slope and came to rest on its wheels. The cab and sides were con—siderably damaged but the driver escaped unscathed.
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Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19891, 21 May 1936, Page 8
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146LORRY DESCENDS BANK. Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19891, 21 May 1936, Page 8
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