A curious accident befell a large motor lorry at Waipawa (says the Manawatu Evening Standard). The vehicle was left standing on the main road just over the river while the driver went into a house for a few minutes. When be returned he was astonished to find the lorry, which was loaded with a large pen full of young calves, embedded in a paddock on the other side of the road on the river bank. Apparently the engine was left running, though . the brakes were said to be on, and the lorry turned by some means, crossed the road, broke through a fence, and came to rest at the bottom of a bank in the paddock. Luckily it did not capsize, so neither the vehicle nor the calves were injured. - s
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Otago Witness, Issue 3888, 18 September 1928, Page 56
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