PINNED BY MOTOR TRUCK
FARMER'S AWFUL ORDEAL HELPLESS FOR SEVEN HOURS. VICTIM EMERGES UNSCATHED. By Telegraph.— Press Association. Blenheim, Last Night. Pinned by the neck for over seven hours'beneath an upturned motor-truck, Mervyn F. Jeffries, of Grassmere, farmer, had the amazing good fortune to emerge unscathed from an experience which he will nevertheless remember for the rest of his life.
At one o’clock on a recent morning Mr. Jeffries was driving from Blenheim to his home at Grassmere in a motortruck of the light delivery type, and when proceeding down the southern side of the Lion’s Baek the vehicle for some unaccountable reason suddenly left the road. From the road the hill slopes away steeply, and as the accident happened well up the incline there was a considerable distance down to the floor of the valley. Fortunately,' however, after the truck had rolled over once it came up against a fence, which proved strong enough to hold it. Mr. Jeffries was tossed from hie seat and found himself pinned by the neck and so held by the weight of the machine that struggle as he would he could not free himself. Providentially the side truck was resting upon a boulder, which was just high enough to keep the weight of the vehicle off his neck. From 1 a°m. Mr. Jeffries had to remain in this trying predicament until eight o’clock, when an Awatere county workman happened to espy him and effected a welcome rescue.
Mr. Jeffries did not even suffer serious ill-effects from the lengthy period of exposure and is now none the worse for his experience. The truck was not seriously damaged, the hood and windscreen suffering most of all.
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Taranaki Daily News, 24 July 1930, Page 13
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