TRAIL OF WRECKAGE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19827, 3 January 1939, Page 3

TRAIL OF WRECKAGE

LORRY OUT OF CONTROL CHARGE DOWN STREP HILL (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Extensive damage was done by a motor lorry owned by the Wellington Concrete Pipe Company, Limited, which became out of control at the top of one of the steepest hills on the Wellington-Rodrigo road, Kilbirnie, and careered wildly down to the bottom shortly after 0 o'clock on Sunday morning. The lorry narrowly missed a motor car parked on the right at the top of the road and charged over to the left. Where it hit another car, carrying it about 23ft. down the road and smashing in the back and ripping out the scats. It then slewed over to the ng'ht again and mounted the footpath, tarrying away a gate and a number of fence palings and smashing a telegraph pole in two.

Continuing down the road, the lorry failed to take a bend and crashed inrough the door of an empty garage, coming to rest on its side. None of the three occupants was seriously injured. The driver, J. .Summers,, a lorry driver, of 11 Imperial terrace, received a lacerated wound over the right eye and abrasions to the right ear. Mrs. M. Danby, 17 Tirangi road, received slight concussion. F. Danby, a metal worker, was not injured.

Nearby residents, hearing the sound <■>: splintering woodwork, ran to the aid of the occupants of the lorry and assisted them- to free themselves from the wreckage. The lorry was extensively damaged.