LORRY RUNS AMOK

Waikato Times, Volume 105, Issue 17787, 12 August 1929, Page 7

LORRY RUNS AMOK

TRAGEDY IN SYDNEY. TWO KILLED OUTRIGHT. FOUR OTHERS INJURED. (By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) SYDNEY. August 11. Tragic results attended an accident at Newtown to-day. A motor lorry, which was travelling at a high rate of speed in King Street, got out of hand, mounted a footpath, and killed a boy and an old man, and injured a little girl. Continuing its course, the lorry smashed the plate-glass windows in several small shops. At Ih 3 end of 40 yards its destructive career was stopped against a newsagent’s window. The driver and two men who were with him were seriously injured. The names of the two killed are Michael Scully, aged 60, of St. Peters, and Robert Haddow, aged 10, of Newtown.

Those injured are Edna Johnston, aged 4, severe head injuries; Percy Spittlehouse, lorry driver, of St. Peters, fractured skull; John Parker and Henry Ludwell, of Newtown, head injuries.

The tragedy was enacted within a few moments. The people in the street had hardly grasped what w-as happening before the incident had encied.

The police seized some beer bottles found in the lorry. Several broken bottles were scattered on the pavement.