REMARKABLE ESCAPE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 173, 24 July 1930, Page 23

REMARKABLE ESCAPE.

SEVEN HOURS UNDER TRUCK.

FARMER PINNED BY NECK.

NO-SERIOUS ILL-EFFECTS.

! "Telegraph.—Press Association.) r • • BLENHEIM, Wednesday. After.having teen pinned by the neck, for. more than -seven hours beneath an upturned motor truck, Mr. Mervyn F. Jeffries,-of Grassmere, a farmer, had the amazing!: good fortune to emerge unscathed from his unpleasant experience. At one o'clock on a, recent morning Mr.. Jeffries was driving from Blenheim to his-homo at Grassmere in a motor truck of .the light delivery type, and when, proceeding down the southern side of the Lion's. Back the vehicle for some unaccountable' reason suddenly left the road. "Froin'the road the hill slopes away steeply, and as the accident happened well up.the incline there was a considerable distance down to the floor of the valley. Fortunately, however, after the truck 'had rolled over once /it came up against a If ence, which proved strong enough rto. hold it. Mr. Jeffries was tossed from the seat, and; found himself pinned by the neck and sO'held by the weight of the machine that, struggle as he would, he could not free himself. Providentially the side of the truck was resting upon a boulder, which was just high enough to keep the weight of the vehicle off his neck. From 1 a.m. Mr. Jeffries had to remain in this trying pre-. dicament',until 8 a.m., when an Awatere County workman happened to see him, and effected a welcome rescue.

. 'M r ;Jeffries did not even suffer serious ill;effeots from tHe lengtliy period of exposure, and-is now none the w.orso for Ws experience. The truck was not seriously damaged, the hood and'the windscreen being chiefly affected.