LITTLE GIRL’S PERIL
FALL BENEATH LORRY BRAKES FAIL TO HOLD The prompt action of three passersby was responsible for preventing serious injury to a Whangarei child aged about six years. The child was on her way to school in Bank street with her brother. She darted across the street, paused and then tried to retrace her steps, but was caught on the bumper of a lorry, the driver of which did not see her. She fell between the bumper and the radiator, coming to rest underneath the body of the truck. Alarmed by the cries of pedestrians, the driver applied his brakes, but as it was on a steep incline the lorry began to move slowly backward. Staff-Ser-geant-Major Andrewes and Messrs. A. Marsden Wood and D. Mitchell rushed to the lorry and. heaving against it with their shoulders, prevented it from moving back. The girl was extricated with little injury, although she suffered from shock, and was taken in the lorry to her home.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19373, 10 July 1937, Page 4
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164LITTLE GIRL’S PERIL Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19373, 10 July 1937, Page 4
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