LORRY OVERTURNS.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19803, 16 December 1929, Page 17

LORRY OVERTURNS.

MAN KILLED; THREE OTHERS INJURED. [THE PKESB Special Service.] AUCKLAND, December 14. As a result of a lorry overturning an the Waipu road on Friday evening, one man was killed and three others injured. The man killed was Fred Edwards, aged 23, a postal employee at Waipu. Those injured were John Catlin, aged 22, quarryman, of Waipu, an injury to the left arm and shoulder, lacerated wound in forehead and ear; Sydney Boggs, aged 23, postal employee at Waipu, left ribs fractured and injury to the left arm; Nathan Hart, aged 23, carrier, of Waipu, injured. The head party left Waipu shortly before 11 p.m in Hart's motor-truck for Ruakaka. They had gone a mile and a quarter and were near a corner when the truck swerved across the road and crashed into a barrel of bitumen. The road at this point is 17ft wide, and the barrel was lying several feet from the edge. After striking the barrel, the lorry capsized against a telegraph pole, which tore the hood off the driver's seat, upon which all four men were seated It is surmised that Edwards was crushed against the pole, for the base of his skull was fractured. Hart and Boggs, the least injured, dragged their companions from the wreckage and Hart summoned the odice from the wharf. Constable Maisey arrived with a doctor, to find Catlin bleeding desperately from a cut artery in his head. This was attended to and the three otbers were dispatched in n taxi to Whangnrei Hospital, where they were admitted at 1.20 a.m. Thev were not eravelv hurt, and the condition of all three was renorted as satisfactorv to-day. Catlin underwent an operation this morning.