LORRY DRIVER'S DEATH.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 19, 23 January 1929, Page 7

LORRY DRIVER'S DEATH.

TIRED BEFORE ACCIDENT.

WORKING ALL NIGHT.

(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.)

' WHAXGAREI, this day. After the sitting of the Magistrate'* Court yesterday Mr. J. H. Luxford, SJI travelled to Kawakawa to investigate the death of Kay Wilson, who was killed when his lorry fell over a bank near Maromaku yesterday morning. A farmer said he noticed ' Wilson driving the lorry at an exceptional pace and trying to pass another lorrV. The marks indicated that the lorry went into a water-table, and, freeing i£seH. slid right across the road over a steep bank finishing 62ft from the road. Wilson was picked up, terriblr crushed about the chest, and died before Kawakawa Hospital was reached. He had been working all night from *L 45 p.m., and he had remarked to a com {•anion, who jumped off as the lorry «r? =rOSS the Toad ' how *"*«* *e was. Wilson's employer said he was a. -ood driver. He was only engaged the dav previously, and at 4 all. witness wanted to relieve him, but the deceased was desirous of continuing work the extra few hours for overtime. The coroner found that death Was the result of an accidental happening.