MAN RISKS LIFE
BRAVE TRUCK-DRIVER AVOIDING A COLLISION Risking his life to avoid a head-on collision with a small car because he realised it would mean almost certain death to its occupants, Herbert Johnson, aged 30, of Deniliquin, New South Wales, drove his truck over a 20ft. embankment at the Keilor bridge on the Calder highway, Victoria, recently. After overturning three times as it tumbled down from the road the truck came to rest on its wheels at the bottom of the gully. Fifty petrol drums which the vehicle was carrying were scattered over the ground and in a patch of dense scrub through which the truck ran before it was stopped beneath the bridge. Mr. Johnson, who was in the driver's cabin, was dazed by his experience, but he was able to go home after receiving medical treatment.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21807, 23 May 1934, Page 8
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