House Damaged When Truck Hits Pole
(New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, June 23.
The front of a house was pulled six feet, power lines crashed to the ground and a plate-glass shop window was shattered when a heavy diesel truck careered out • of control into a concrete power • pole at Royal Oak today. The : truck driver, Mr Albert Stanley . Ley, aged 46, suffered concussion ; and was admitted to Greenlane ; Hospital. I The concrete power pole broke ’ into three pieces and collapsed, > dragging a wooden pole forward and this pole, straining on the • power lines to the house, dragged I the wall out. t
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29239, 24 June 1960, Page 20
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