INJURED MAN’S PLIGHT

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 128, 15 March 1950, Page 4

INJURED MAN’S PLIGHT

NIGHT SPENT IN GULLY (P.A.) CHRISTCHURCH, March 14. When his truck, loaded with fencing wire, left the Stoney Bay road, Banks Peninsula, and plunged into a gully last night, the driver, T. A,. Armstrong, broke a thigh and was forced to lie all night on the hillside, where he was found this morning by- his brother, Mr W. Armstrong, of Le Bon’s Bay. He Was then exhausted. Mr Armstrong left his homestead at Akaroa about 8 o’clock last evening to take fhe fencing wire to his property between Stoney Bay and Flea Bay. The Stoney Bay road on which he travelled is only metalled In stretches on the ocean side of the hill, and the truck left the road about one mile and a half from the Hilltop, after the back tyres had Skidded on the wet road. He was injured while getting out of the cab of the truck a§ it rolled down.

As Mr Armstrong was to have spent the night in a whare on the property, no notice was taken of his absence. When Mr W. Armstrong went to get some sheep this morning he found his brother.

Mr T. A. Armstrong was taken to the Akaroa Hospital and treated by Dr. A. H. Stewart, and later taken to the Christchurch Public Hospital by ambulance. His condition this evening w T as satisfactory. The truck, was badly damaged, plunged down about 900 feet and came to rest in the gully.