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CANTERBURY MAN KILLED. MACHINE GOES OVER BANK. Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, June 2. One man was killed instantaneously and another injured when a motor lorry left the Coalgatc-Sheffield road five miles from Coalgate and somersaulted over a steep bank at about 1.45 p.m. this afternoon. The men were: Killed: GEORGE K. CIIYSELL, married, aged 70 years, of Cust. He received terrible head injuries, including a fractured skull. Injured: ARTHUR REGINALD FORBES, married, Cust/the driver of the lorry. He received wounds and abrasions to the head and body, but was not seriously hurt. Mr Forbes, who was accompanied by Mr Crysell, was driving the motor lorry along the road near the Bonanza Mine when, after turning a bend in the road, the lorry left the _ wheel tracks on the road. After recovering its position, it shot straight across the other side of the road, where it somersaulted over the steep bank, coming to rest against a' wire fence about 12ft. below the road.The driver of another lorry who pa.ssed shortly afterward noticed the overturned vehicle and hearing,moans from beneath it quickly obtained the help of several miners to lift the overturned vehicle, under which the two men were pinned.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 156, 3 June 1937, Page 11
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