RUNAWAY LORRY ACCIDENT
PAEKAKARIKI HILL SMASH. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, April 28. At the inquest on Charles Frederick Astridge, who was killed when a motorlorry in which he was a passenger crashed over a bank on the Paekakariki Hill, Mr. Salek, -S.M., gave a verdict that Astridge was killed through jumping from a lorry while it was out of control. The driver, Gay, gave evidence that the lorry got away while going down in gear through the propelling shaft breaking. Astridge jumped or fell while the lorry was still on the road. Witness steered into a bank three times in an attempt to stop, and the third time the lorry turned and went clean across and over.
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Taranaki Daily News, 29 April 1931, Page 9
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