HOURS OF AGONY
Pinned Down By Truck CRIES FOR HELP UNHEARD (By Telegraph-Press Association,) STRATFORD, Dec. 22 Alter skidding on a corner on a mud road between Tahora and Tangarakau at 9.3 p.m. on Wednesday, a truck driven by Desmond Hight, aged 22, of Tangarakau, capsized off the road and fell on a fence, pinning Hight between the lorry and the fence. He endured untold pain for 9} hours in heavy rain till he was found at 7 a.m. yesterday. Only a few chains a.way were a house and a hut lull of workmen, but Hight’s cries for help were unheard. No traffic passed jn the in-
In addition to the weight of the truck he had to breathe the fumes of petrol leaking from the tank and, with the truck, above him, the fence wires were cutting into his throat and face. Hight is now in Stratford hospital.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 10, 22 December 1933, Page 7
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149HOURS OF AGONY Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 10, 22 December 1933, Page 7
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