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| Author: | debbiecamera [ Mon Oct 15, 2012 10:08 am ] |
| Post subject: | Fatal Accident on Manchester Road Burnley 1920s |
Hello all, it's a while since I visited but I remember you all as a friendly and helpful bunch! I'm researching a friend's family tree and wonder if anyone knows anything of a fatal accident in the 1920s - possibly 1924/5 on Manchester Road in Burnley, when a man was crushed to death by a runaway lorry? The man's son was given up for adoption after by his unmarried mother. Many thanks, Debbie |
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| Author: | portia [ Mon Oct 15, 2012 12:10 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Fatal Accident on Manchester Road Burnley 1920s |
Sorry, the only one I know of was in the 1940s. What was his name? |
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| Author: | Gloria [ Mon Oct 15, 2012 2:12 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Fatal Accident on Manchester Road Burnley 1920s |
If you can find the date of death then maybe Burnley Library would have a newspaper article on it. I have always found them really helpful. |
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| Author: | Mel [ Mon Oct 15, 2012 4:56 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Fatal Accident on Manchester Road Burnley 1920s |
It rings a bell....take a look at the link below..... http://www.briercliffesociety.co.uk/tal ... ilit=lorry Does this refer to the same thing? |
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| Author: | debbiecamera [ Tue Oct 16, 2012 10:26 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Fatal Accident on Manchester Road Burnley 1920s |
Thanks for your time everyone. The staff at Burnley Library did indeed find it for me - it was what I was looking for. It sounds absolutely awful! I quote from their email: We have found a report in the Burnley Express from 20 April 1921 that describes the crash in great detail. Essentially, a lorry carrying concrete slabs lost control at the top of Manchester road, it's breaks and gears appearing to have failed, and careered down the road into the town centre, eventually reaching speeds of 60mph and crashing into 2 shop fronts. The incident caused the death of a Mr Thomas Riley who was apparently struck by a large slab of concrete that fell from the lorry. |
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| Author: | Gloria [ Tue Oct 16, 2012 10:39 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Fatal Accident on Manchester Road Burnley 1920s |
It used to be quite a regular occurence in the "olden days". Must have been horrific to see a large lorry careering down the road, wouldn't have liked to have worked in the shops across the T junction at the bottom. |
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| Author: | portia [ Tue Oct 16, 2012 2:16 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Fatal Accident on Manchester Road Burnley 1920s |
I'm pretty sure they eventually put a diversion up for heavy goods vehicles to stop them going down Manchester Road. I think that even now they have to go down Glenview road and left into Todmorden Road to get to the town centre. |
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