TRAILING ROPE
—♦- • MOTOR-VEHICLE DANGER The danger to other people of rope trailing behind motor-lorries or motor- ; cars his been demonstrated twice re- ; cently and the consequences have :>e..n : S °Not S so long ago a Press Association ; message from Whangarei reported ' that a woman was killed when through i a tow-line snapping she was caught . round the legs by the line and dragged i along the street.. ■ Another mishap as. a result of a r trailing rope, though the circums ance, . were slightly different, and it did net ' end fatally, occurred in Wellington i and ».vas the cause of one of the cits traffic inspectors, Mr. H. Dineen, i being oft' the scene for about a * month. ~ . , i Mr Dineen was standing on a boaiu \ on point duty outside the entrance to the Queen's Wharf when a rope trail- ' ing 'ihind from a passing vehicle t caught the board and hurled him I through space. Mr. Dineen's bac-c «' was injured, and he was forced to U-.v * up for several weeks.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 134, 8 June 1936, Page 11
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170TRAILING ROPE Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 134, 8 June 1936, Page 11
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