TRUCK CRASHES INTO FRONT ROOM OF HOUSE
(P.A.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Left standing in Hanson street, Wellington, last night, a three-ton Post and Telegraph lines truck ran away, rounded a right-hand curve into Drummond street, and mounted a footpath, to hit a concrete wall and lamp post and rebounded to the opposite side of the road. There it knocked down a four-feet high brick and concrete wall, crossed a strip of lawn and crashed through a large bay window in a stucco house into the sitting room. The house was No. 25 Drummond street, occupied by Mrs G. A. Johnstone. The front wheels of the truck came to rest on the carpet within a few feet of a glass china cabinet. The truck was practically undamaged nd was able to be backed out and driven away under its own power, but a tarpaulin had to be used to cover a gaping hole in the' front of the house.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 3 September 1947, Page 10
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