SEVERE INJURIES.
STRUCK BY MOTOR LORRY. BLIND MAN KNOCKED DOWN. (Py Telegraph.—Press Association.) AUCJvLAND, Thursday. A man almost totally blind was knocked down by a motor truck In Broadway, Newmarket, this morning. Ho was Roger William Corbett, aged 48. single, residing at the hostel at the New Zealand Institute for the Blind and was crossing the street from a safelv zone when lie was struck by a lorry heavily laden with stone. He was badly crushed, and received concussion,->a. fracture of Ihc left leg. and lacerations to the. right leg. He was taken to the hospital in a St. John ambulance
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Waikato Times, Volume 118, Issue 19763, 19 December 1935, Page 10
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