TRAILER BREAKS LOOSE
EMPLOYEE OF WORKS DEPARTMENT KILLED
(P.A.) NELSON, April 19. In an unusual accident Alfred Robert Strahl, aged 25, a single employee of the Public Works Department, was killed by a trailer which broke loose from a truck on the Annesbrook overhead bridge. His parents live in Kaikoura. Two women in a parked car had a narrow escape. A motor lorry was towing the trailer, with a bulldozer on it, when, nearing the top of the Annesbrook incline, the bolt holding the drawbar on the truck apparently snapped and the trailer, carrying the bulldozer, started off down tlie incline. Strahl, who was sitting in the cabin of the truck, dashed off in pursuit of the trailer, with the object of applying the separate brake in the trailer. He was observed to attempt to jump on the trailer, but apparently slipped and was struck and killed.
The car containing the two women had pulled up at the foot of the incline to allow the truck and trailer to pass, and the terrified occupants saw the heavily laden trailer charging towards them. Just in time the trailer swung round and careered into a paddock, where it came to a stop.
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Southland Times, Issue 25652, 20 April 1945, Page 4
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