LORRY LEAVES ROAD
MAN AND WIFE SERIOUSLY INJURED. (Per United Press Association.) Auckland, December 14. Three people were injured, two seriously, when a motor lorry loaded with fish capsized over a bank on the road between Ruawai and Dargaville near the Tokatoka deviation into the dry portion of the bed of the northern Wairoa River shortly before midnight.
They were Colin McDonald, aged about 30, a fisherman, his wife and their child, aged five. The three occupants were pinned beneath the vehicle, the two elder people being seriously injured. At a late hour this evening they were still unconscious. Fortunately the tide was out as the spot where the vehicle landed is covered with several feet of water at high tide. The occupants were extricated almost immediately by three men who were in a car following. The injured people were taken by ambulance to the northern Wairoa hospital.
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Southland Times, Issue 21577, 15 December 1931, Page 7
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