MIRACULOUS ESCAPE
MOTOR-LORRY GOES OVER A
BANK,
(BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.)
ASHBURTON, This Day. A sensational- accident, occurred at Lake Coleridge on Saturday evening, a motor-lorry falling over a bank a hundred feet deep, turning two or three 'somersaults, into the shallow water of the lake at the power works intake. The driver, F. A. Barrett, storekeeper, of Hororata, went over with the lorry, but miraculously' escaped injury. The lorry' was irreparably damaged. The accident is ascribed to the lorry being inadvertently put into reverse gear.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 114, 18 May 1925, Page 6
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85MIRACULOUS ESCAPE Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 114, 18 May 1925, Page 6
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