ACCIDENT TO LORRY
DRIVER SEVERELY HURT
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DUNEDIN, February 16. Presumably due to the steering gear jamming, a heavy motor-lorry, laden with bricks and sand, left the road in a deep cutting three miles north of Balclutha at about 6.40 tonight and crashed into a telegraph pole.
The driver, Herbert Anscombe, married, residing at Clydevale, received severe head and leg injuries and he was taken by ambulance to the Balclutha Hospital. The other occupant of the lorry, Victor Hornby, of Clydevale, escaped lightly.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 40, 17 February 1939, Page 16
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86ACCIDENT TO LORRY Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 40, 17 February 1939, Page 16
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