UNUSUAL ACCIDENT.
TRUCK STRIKES CABLES. WINDSCREEN SHATTERED. [BY TEI.EGRArTT. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.] "WIIANGAREI, Thursday. Low-lying electric cables were the cause, of a minor accident at the intersection of Bank Street and Rust Lane, Whanga-rei, this morning. The wires caught the windscreen of a motor truck and lifted off the hood and smashed the glass. Workmen were placing the cables in position in the lane when the truck, which is owned l\y the Whangarei Cooperative Dairy Company, Limited, and which was driven by Mr. B. Alderton, started to turn out of the lane. The driver did not see the wires, and the next tlffng he knew was the crash of splintered glass. Mr. Alderton was fortunate in escaping injury from the flying glass.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21099, 5 February 1932, Page 8
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