RUNAWAY MOTOR LORRY.
CRASHES INTO PETROL STATION. (Special to Daily Times.) AUCKLAND, December 10. A petrol station at the corner of Wellesley street and Rutland street was wrecked this afternoon by a lorry fully loaded with electric equipment, which got out of control near the intersection of Wellesley street and O’Rovke street. The lorry was ascending the hill when engine trouble occurred. The lorry became unmanageable, and when it began to back down Wellesley street the driver, a youth of 17, named James Mills, of East street, Papakura, jumped clear. On the down grade the lorry gathered momentum, narrowly missed a tramear, and was travelling at a high rate of speed when it struck another lorry and then crashed into the petrol station. The driver, whose left wrist was injured, was attended by the St. John Ambulance. The lorry was owned by Turnbull and Jones
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19970, 11 December 1926, Page 6
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