LORRY CRASHES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23688, 21 December 1938, Page 12

LORRY CRASHES

FRANSPORT DRIVER’S ORDEAL FIVE HOURS UNDER VEHICLE THIGH AND LEG FRACTURED (Per United Press Association) WELLINGTON, Dec. 20. A transport driver lay under his lorry for five hours this morning with severe leg injuries after his truck had crashed through a fence on its way down Paekakariki Hill and was brought to rest 50 feet below by two trees. The accident happened about 1 o’clock. The truck was the second of three trucks belonging to the railway goods service, and the man was alone in it. When the truck did not arrive in Wellington fears were felt, and the third driver remembered having noticed a break irt a fence alongside the road. The drivers of the other two trucks and the manager went back, and on finding what had happened attempted to get in touch with the ambulance from Pahautanui, but were unable to do so and had to go to Porirua. The ambulance driver and the others had a difficult task in bringing the injured man up a steep and slippery bank, taking about 45 minutes to do so. He was sent to the hospital with a fracture of the right thigh and a fracture of the right leg. He is also suffering from severe shock.