MOTOR LORRY CAPSIZES.
EIGHT MEN ABOARD.
ONE! KILLED AMD I FIVE INJURED
(BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION.) DUINEDLN, March 2(5. While returning to Dunedin from a public) works construction camp at Mt. Cargill, on the Main North Road, a heavy lorry containing eight men crashed oven* a 70 foot bank. One of the occupants, D. Reid, an ex-corporation employee, was killed outright, and five were injured, three seriously. ! The injured in hospital are Kenneth McKenzie. John Myer and Frederick Coll. It is believed that the accident was caused by the collapse of the .steering gear. Usually twenty men travel on the lorry to and from the city, but by a lucky chance the passengers numbered only eight.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 27 March 1926, Page 5
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