MIRACULOUS ESCAPE
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LORRY FALLS 150 FEET BOTH OiVriUNTS E>< AUK. Llectrio Telegraph—Press Association \KLx>\ Last Kigjkt. Two men lia<l a miraculous escaiv from serious injury on Saturday afternoon when a truck I«*lI 150 i»*ct down a steep Hillside near Hope. Ihe truck was brinj'inji a load 3t wood from Aniseed Valley and at rile top of the iiill pidUnl asid«> to let a car pass. Suddenly :»»« roa I gave way under the strain and the trunk toppled over the brink It somersaulted at least a doscui tiin. > before reaching the bottom. File passenger* in tin* cab. Robert Freeman, of Hop**, and a mail named McDowell. wer«» thrown clear when the cab was smashed to nijtfehw«»od halfway down. Freeman is suffering from shock, scratches and bruises and was tak<*n t<» hospital. but his eonditjon is i.ot serious. McDowell was onlv slightly cut The truck was wrecked.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 13946, 29 August 1938, Page 5
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147MIRACULOUS ESCAPE Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 13946, 29 August 1938, Page 5
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