TRUCK AND LORRY COLLIDE

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 665, 17 May 1929, Page 11

TRUCK AND LORRY COLLIDE

BOTH VEHICLES DAMAGED (From Our Own Correspondent) OTOROHANGA, Thursday. A collision occurred this afternoon on the Iviokio Road, just outside Otorohanga, between a motor-truck, laden with road metal, driven by Mr. David Ormsby, and a sedan car, journeying from Kiokio to New Plymouth. Both the car and the truck which were practically new, were badly damaged. The passengers for New Plymouth are suffering from shock.

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