LORRY KNOCKS GIRL OVER
MOTORIST CHASES TEN MILES. GISBORNE STREET SENSATION By Telegraph.—Press Association. Gisborne, July 16. The action of a motorist, L. A. Potts, in giving chase to a lorry after an accident last evening, and in stopping the driver and securing his name, address and other details, is warmly commended by the police. At 5.10 yesterday Noeline Kidd, aged eight, was knocked off her bicycle at an intersection near the town and left lying on the road with a fractured jaw and arm and other less serious injuries. The motor-lorry had gained a considerable lead when Potts started in pursuit but, despite numerous delays on account of traffic and the necessity of obtaining petrol, the motorist caught up with the lorry after a ten miles’ chase. The driver of the lorry stopped by Potta denied knowledge of any accident, When Potts overtook the lorry he noticed that the headlamps were damaged and the glass missing, and fragments of a headlamp glass were found on the road where the accident occurred. The driver stated that the lamps had been damaged a month before.
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Taranaki Daily News, 17 July 1930, Page 6
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