FATAL LORRY SMASH
MARINE CORPS VEHICLE
(P.A.)
TAIHAPE, June 11
One man was fatally injured and another badly hurt at 10 o'clock last night when a three-ton U.S.M.C. truck left Ellis Road, Taihape, and crashed down a steep hillside for 200 feet, turning over several times and coming to rest against the fence bounding the Main Trunk railway line. One of the occupants died in the Taihape Hospital, at 5 o'clock this morning. He had a fracture of the base of the skull, with laceration of the brain. The driver of the truck is in a serious condition with a fractured spine and internal injuries. He is now conscious. A third occupant of the truck was unhurt. The police and two doctors arrived promptly at the scene. The injured men with extreme difficulty were carried up the steep slope to an ambulance. , ■*
By 10 o'clock .this morning marine personnel had removed the badly damaged truck along the railway line and repaired the fences. A marine court of inquiry sat at Taihape this afternoon and was still sitting, at 5 o'clock.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 138, 12 June 1943, Page 6
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