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Originally Posted by les stewart
First time post from New zealand. From memory, the original shops were demolished after a runaway truck crashed into them. I think the driver's brakes failed on Manchester Road.
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The runaway truck as you call it didn't get to Peel St.
It happened one dinner time the lorry was on the wrong side of the road as it passed the Fire Station it demolished some of the stone work on the left hand side of the door way of the Hargreaves Arms. We immediately turned out with two machines and the emergency tender. The lorry hit a white Ford car waiting to turn into Warner St, peeled the side of a Ribble bus waiting 3rd in the queue at the Traffic light at the top of Little Blackburn Rd, pushed the white car under a furniture van and rammed the whole lot into the Canine club, the lorry then veered left and buried itself into the front of the wine shop at the top of Little Blackburn Rd. Its now a cleared area with a tree planted in it.
It took 20 minutes to cut the driver free from the white car, a young woman aged about 30, she was in a bad way. Don't remember if she survived or not.
Retlaw