PINNED BY TRUCK
DRIVER’S UNENVIABLE EXPERIENCE (By Telegraph—Press Association) STRATFORD, This Day. After skidding, on a corner or. the muddy road between Tahora and Tangurakau at 9.3 p.m. on Wednesday, a truck driven by Desmond Hight, aged 22 years, of Tangarakau, capsized off the road and fell on a fence, pinning Hight between the lorry arid the fence He endured untold pain for 94 hours in heavy rain till found at 7 a.m. yesterday. Only a few chains away were a house and a hut full of workmen, but Hight’s cries for help were unheard. No traffic passed in the interim. In addition to suffering the weight of the truck he had to breathe the fumes of petrol leaking from the tank and with the fence wires cutting into his body, throat and face his experience was unenviable. Hight is now in Stratford Hospital.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 22 December 1933, Page 2
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