PLUNGED OFF ROAD
MAIL LORRY MISHAP FALL OVER BANK DRIVER’S ESCAPE [Special to “Northern Advocate.”! GISBORNE, This Day. The night mail and freight truck, travelling from Taneatua to Gisborne, plunged off the highway yesterday morning between Toatoa and Motu, and crashed down a bank, turning over seven or eight times. The driver, Mr. Eric Hughes, was knocked unconscious by a blow on the head received when the vehicle turned over for the first time, but he was not thrown out of the cab, and was otherwise uninjured. When Mr. Hughes came to, he climbed to the road with some difficulty and walked back to Toatoa to telephone to Gisborne and explain that the mails could not be delivered oni time. Later he went out with assistance arranged by the postmaster at Toatoa, and recovered the mails from the damaged truck. In the meantime, it was arranged that a relief truck should go out from Gisborne to assist with the recovery of the substantial freight carried on the truck. The cause of the accident was . the collapse of a portion of the road sur-face'-under the weight of the truck. During recent storms in the high country water has seeped under the road surfaces in places, and created a new hazard for traffic.
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Northern Advocate, 15 August 1935, Page 7
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