CRASH INTO A GULLY.
LORRY'S DASH DOWN GORGE. OCCUPANTS' LEAP FOR LIVES. [BY TELEGRAPH.—OWN CORRESPONDENT.] CHRISTCHURCH. Friday. Loaded with rock salt, a six-ton motorlorry careered down Ashburton Gorge and shot over a bank, crashing into a gully a> hundred feet below and being smashed to matchwood. Two persons who were in the lorry had a miraculous escape from being killed. The accident occuired about 20 miles up 'lie gorge, at a place called Cutting. The lorry got out of control, and all attempts to run it, against the inside bank failed. Gathering momentum, it sped on until a bend was reached, and here if crashed through a wooden fenjo and went over the bank. The driver, Goodrich, and a companion leaped clear when they saw a crash was imminent. 'They 'escaped with bruises and scratches.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18949, 21 February 1925, Page 8
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