Man Dies In Collision Between Two Trucks

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29998, 6 December 1962, Page 16

Man Dies In Collision Between Two Trucks

(New Zealand Press Association)

HAMILTON, Dec. 5.

A Hamilton man was killed tn a two-truck collision at the Maeroa road-Gurnell avenue intersection, Hamilton, at 9.10 am. today He was thrown from the cab of

his light truck when his vehicle and a heavy trailertowing truck collided. He was Henry Thomas Tarry, building contractor, St. Andrews terrace, Hamilton, aged about 50.

Keith Graham Beech, aged 22, Cambridge, the driver of the other vehicle, was uninjured. A passenger Frederick Charles Stevens, aged 26, Cambridge, also escaped unscathed. The collision occurred in the centre of the intersection. Mr Tarry was thrown on to the road out of the passenger door of the truck he was driving His driverless truck, the nose a tangled mass of steel, careered across a lawn and stopped two houses away from the point of impact. The truck’s final resting place was only five yards from a row of windows in the house. The transporter also left the road. It spun round and demolished a concrete telegraph pole. The truck ground to a halt on the pavement. Its large trailer crashed on its side on another resident’s from lawn.