DROP OVER BANK.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20962, 27 February 1930, Page 12

DROP OVER BANK.

MOTOR LORRY FALLS NINETY FEET. DRIVER’S MIRACULOUS ESCAPE. (Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, February 26. i, Jv. °. vc . r • a - stee P bank 90 feet in height whilst driving a lieavy motor lorry aden, with earth and yet escape “ s cot free wa ß the experience to-day of Mr Morgan,, contractor for the removal of pilv TkE 01 *1 bl « cutting in the aM VT k f’ S b f lnß . done with *0 am of a fleet of motor lorries, each of which carries about two tons of earth The dump is into a gully. The nimhis operandi is for each lorry, as it arrives ft* to hack Slowly to the edge + Dd n P oad backwards. llie tiling naturally is on a very steep gJi nd /’ t as i be * ev P* the street is about 90 feet above the bottom of the gullv or . ravll l e now bein S filled- in y At about 11 a.m. Mr Morgan who dnves one of his own lorries, arrived with a ful! load, and was backing to the edge when it is understood something blocked the accelerator feed for a moment Then ancl de fhl y I the th , e bl ° cka Se was cleared! and the lorry shot back over the edge toppled over on its side, and slid down- '?*; ho fi 3o feet from the bottom the vehicle did a somersault, and then curious to re ate, landed upright at the foot of the slope. Fortunately, the bi<r slide was composed for the greater part .L.l°£K,!° ose , earth - which must &ve checked the velocity of the sliding-vehicle for before it somersaulted Mr Morgan was able to jump out of the cab fud dear of the falling vehicle. Mr Morgan considered himself lucky to escape !vfth