MOTOR LORRY GETS OUT OF HAND IN STREET

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 82, 12 August 1929, Page 5

MOTOR LORRY GETS OUT OF HAND IN STREET

BOY ALMOST CUT , , , TO PIECES man killed, baby injured. CRASHED INTO SHOP WINDOWS. SYDNEY, August 11. A motor lorry, travelling at high speed in King Street, Newtown, got out of hand, mounted the footpath, cut a boy almost to pieces, killed an. old main and injured a baby girl. Continuing its course the lorry smashed the plate-glass windows of several small shops till, at the end of its 40 yards’ destructive career, it stopped against a news agent’s window. The driver and two men with him were seriously isjured, , The killed are Michgel Scully aged 60, of St. Peter’s, and Robert Haddow, aged 10, of Newtown. The injured are Edna Johnston, aged 4, who lias severe head injuries; Percy Spittlehouse. the lorry driver, of St. Peter’s (fractured skull); John Pairker and Henry Lndwell, of Newtown, both with head injuries. The whole tragedy was enacted within a few moments. People in the street had hardly grasped what was happening before the incident was ended. I

The boy was crushed against one of the shop fronts, was dismembered and (shockingly mutilated. Scully’a injuries wore nea'rly as bad and death was instantaneous. The police seized beer bottles found in the lorry, and there were several broken ones on the pavement, the co stepts mingling with the blood of the dead.