LORRY GOES OVER BANK.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVI, Issue 86, 27 March 1926, Page 4

LORRY GOES OVER BANK.

ONE PASSENGER KILLED. Dunedin, March 26. While returning to Dunedin from a Public Works construction camp at Mount Cargill, on the main north road, a heavy lorry containing eight men crashed over a 20-foot bank. One of the occupants. D. Reid, an ex-cor-poration 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 20 men travel on the lorry to and from the city, but by a lucky chance the passengers numbered only eight. Dunedin, March 27, Reed the victim of the Mount Cargill accident, was aged 42. Reed, a single man. was buried under wreckage and almost instantly killed. Kenneth McKenzie sustained a broken leg. while four other men, including the driver. Frederick Cole, sustained superficial injuries. The lorry was wrecked. Examination of the wreckage showed that an important nut was missing from the radius rod of the steering gear, a fact which was sufficient to cause loss of control. Cole states that he found the vehicle failed to steer just before the smash.