Lorry sinks into old mineshaft
26th February 1998, Page 11
26th February 1998
Page 11
Page 11, 26th February 1998
— Lorry sinks into old mineshaft
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• A truck driver and his mate had a lucky escape when their vehicle fell into a disused mine shaft in west Cornwall.
Stephen Sedgeman and Michael Siddal, who work for Chris Sedgeman Scaffolding, were delivering to a local restaurant when the front of the truck suddenly dropped. "I thought we'd had a blow-out," says Sedgeman, "but when I looked down to see a hole a metre long we leaped from the cab." When firemen eventually pulled the truck free using a bulldozer they revealed a hole 4m deep and Am across.