REMARKABLE ESCAPE.
lORBY DRIVER TRAPPED. (Prom Our Own Correspondent.) TAUMARUNUI, Tuesday. When Mr. D. Nissen, employed as a motor lorry driver at Mr. C. P. Smith's sawmill, Taringamutu, was driving to Taumarunui yesterday with a lorry load of sawn timber, the vehicle went over a steep bank near the top of Saunders' Hill, about one mile nast the golf links. After the lorry left the road it divo'i into a steep gully, and apparently turned over several times before coming to a standstill. Mr. Nissen had been unable to leave the cab owing to the fact that timber was stacked on both sides of it. He was knocked unconscious, and when he came to about an hour after his usual time of passing this point, he scrambled up to the road, where he was picked up and conveyed to the Taumarunui Hospital by the Rev. A. McKenzie. Mr. Nissen's escape with slight injuries was remarkable, for the cab of the lorry was smashed to pieces. The rest of the lorry was not seriously damaged.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 185, 7 August 1935, Page 12
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