CRASH INTO GULLY
STEEL-LADEN LORRY
DRIVER IN HOSPITAL
(Special to the "Evening Post.")' > NAPIER, July 2.
When the cab of his lorry was crushed like an eggshell by a heavy load of steel carried on the tray and •». on a trailer that was being towed, Leslie Grant, single, Napier, had a narrow escape from death, though he re--• ceived chest and other injuries.
He was driving on the Napier-Wairoa roao, and near Waikare the lorry fell - 30 or 40 feet into a gully. Grant made a dive out of the left-hand side of the cab as the steel crashed through where he had been sitting.
The lorry burst into flames, and all that remains of it now is the twisted and burned chassis.
Mr. Grant, was quickly brought back to the road and taken to hospital.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 3, 3 July 1940, Page 5
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136CRASH INTO GULLY Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 3, 3 July 1940, Page 5
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