Driver Crawls From Tanker
(New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, June 3. A young man crawled out of a petrol tanker unscathed after it had plunged 50 feet into a stream at Wainuiomata today.
He is Colin Walter Fraser, aged 22, of Porirua East. The accident occurred at 4.30 p.m. as the tanker was on its way to Wainuiomata. The tanker’s wheel slithered off the hard surface of
the metalled road and the vehicle overturned, somersaulting twice as it plummeted into the stream below. The tanker turned on its side in the water with the driver’s door jammed. Mr Fraser.- forced his way through the smashed windscreen to get out. An attempt to haul the tanker out of the stream by its owners, Shell Oil, was stopped by the police tonight because of the danger from overhead power lines and the softness of the road. The tanker’s load was pumped into a stand-by tanker.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30768, 4 June 1965, Page 14
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153Driver Crawls From Tanker Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30768, 4 June 1965, Page 14
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