LORRY LEAVES ROAD
ONE OCCUPANT KILLED FIVE OTHERS INJURED Dr Telegraph.—l’bEss Association Dunedin, March 26. While returning to Dunedin from a Public Works construction camp at Mount Cargill on the main North Road, a heavy lorry containing eight men crashed over a 20-foot bank. One of the occupants, D. Reid, an ex-corporation employee, was killed outright and five were injured, three of them seriously. The injured in hospital are: Kenneth McKenzie, John Wyer, and Frederick Coll. It is believed that the accident was caused by the collapse of the steering gear. Usually twenty men travel on the lorrv to and from the city, but by a lucky chance the passengers numbered only eight.
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Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 155, 27 March 1926, Page 10
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