TRUCK CAREERS FROM ROAD
Power Supply Cut Off, Train Delayed
(Uew Zealand Press Association) NAPIER, December 7.
A fully-laden three-ton truck left the main Napier-Hastings highway, flattened about 150 ft of fencing, and crashed into a power pole near the Cabaret Cabana at Awatoto last night. The power pole was snapped off and a number of 400-volt wires came down across the wire fence and roadway. The driver of the truck, William' James Glenie, of Willowbank road, Napier, was not injured.
The truck came to a standstill on the railway line nearby and the line was closed from 10.30 p.m. until midnight. Traffic had to be diverted from the mam highway along a back road for some hours while Hawke’s Bay Electric Power Board employees repaired the pole and wiring and restored the power supply. A goods train had to wait about 35 minutes before the line was reopened.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29383, 9 December 1960, Page 14
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