CRASH INTO POLE
MISHAP TO MOTOR-LORRY TELEGRAPH LINES BROKEN [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] CHRISTCHURCH, Saturday A motor-lorry owned by the Ashburton Transport Company crashed into a telegraph post when carrying four tons of wool near Sockburn at midnight. The post was broken, and when it fell it brought down and broke all the wires, stopping telegraphic communication with tho south and the West Coast. Communication was re-estab-lished at six o'clock this morning with temporary wires, and permanent repairs will be completed to-night. The back portion of the lorry was seriously damaged. The driver, Mr. W. Lamb, was uninjured, but was dazed. Had the lorry hit the next pole, which carries a 16-000-volt line, nothing could have saved the driver from electrocution.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21463, 10 April 1933, Page 8
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