TRAILER BREAKAWAY
YOUNG MAN KILLED NELSON, April 19.' In an unusual accident Alfred Robert Strahl, aged 25, single, an employee of the Public Works Department, was killed by a trailer which broke loose from a truck on the Annesbrook overhead bridge. Strahl’s parents live in Kaikoura. Two women in a parked car had a narrow escape.' The motor-lorry was towing the trailer, with a bulldozer qn it. When nearing the top of the Annesbrook incline the bolt coupling the drawbar on the truck apparently snapped, and the trailer carrying the bulldozer started off down the incline. Strahl, who was sitting in the cabin of the truck, dashed off in pursuit. of the
trailer with the object of applying the separate brake on the trailer. He was observed to attempt to jump on the trailer, but apparently slipped and was struck and killed. A car containing two women had pulled up at the foot of the incline to allow the truck and trailer to pass, and the terrified occupants saw the heavily-laden trailer charging towards them. Just in time the trailer swung round arid careered into a paddock where it came to a stop.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 20 April 1945, Page 3
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