THE DEVIL’S ELBOW
MOTOR LORRY’S FATAL PLUNGE THREE KILLED IN SMASH. DOUBLE SOMERSAULT ON MOUNTAIN ROAD. MELBOURNE. Feb. 2. Three persons were killed and fifteen seriously injured when the brakes of a motor lorry containing twenty-five people failed to hold on the “Devil’s Elbow” in the foothills of the Dandenong Ranges. To save the lorry from running over a bank 300 ft deep the driver turned into a stone face. The vehicle then somersaulted twice. Tho dead aro Nellie Knight, of Richmond, and two men believed to be A. Hazelwood, of East Camberwell, and E. Roberts, of Clifton Hill.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19504, 3 February 1926, Page 7
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99THE DEVIL’S ELBOW Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19504, 3 February 1926, Page 7
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