HIGH-SPEED CHASE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19824, 29 December 1938, Page 7

HIGH-SPEED CHASE

TRUCK’S WILD DASH PURSUIT BY. INSPECTOR (Por Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. A sensation was caused in Petone and Lower Ilutt about 11 o’clock this morning .by the sight of a motor truck careering through the main streets at upwards of 50 miles an hour with the traffic scattering in ail directions to avoid its threat. Inspector A. J. Archer, Ilutt Valley traffic officer, was at an important junction in Petone and set off in pursuit. The speed of the truck increased as the driver realised he was being pursued. Every effort of the inspector to stop the man was in vain and several times lie was forced into the gutter and on to the cycle track at tlie side of the road. The Ilutt Bridge was crossed at a speed but little reduced, and on through Lower Ilutt and across the far boundary went the chase until the truck driver was about half a mile from his home when the pace became Ido great for the truck and the carburettor dropped off. Leaping from his cycle the inspector attempted to stop the driver who pushed him away and proceeded at a rapid run for his home. The inspector telephoned for the police in whose hands the matter has been left.