PHANTOM LORRY MYSTERY.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18500, 22 February 1930, Page 17 (Supplement)

PHANTOM LORRY MYSTERY.

Variety of Accidents

CORONER AND JURY PERPLEXED. (United Press Association—By Electrlo Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON. February 20. Considerable attention has been focussed on a piece of well-made straight, lonely road near Hyde, Cheshire, which is the centre of weird stories concerning a phantom lorry which is said to be responsible for a complex variety of accidents. Attention was first drawn to the matter when an inquest was held into the death of a pillion rider on a motorcycle after an accident at the spot. The driver recovered from his injuries and gave evidence that a heavy lorry suddenly appeared on the road from nowhere. * The Coroner and jury listened attentively, because it is stated that eighteen unaccountable accidents at the same spot within the past eighteen months have not been cleared up. The Coroner suggested that the jury might go there at midnight. Curiously enough another car crashed into a hedge at the same spot today. The licensee of a lonely inn nearby speaks of unaccountable noises at night time and the occupants of the only cottage nearby are leaving. They say that they are terrified. Their dog often dashed out at the sounds, but returned cowed and trembling. On one occasion four were knocked down on the footpath,' yet a car passing at the time did not mount the footpath.