Motor Accident—An unusual accident occurred in High-street on Wednesday, about 5.40p.m. A big motor-lorry, the property of Mr Alfred Grant, carting contactor, Higham Ferrers, heavily loaded with sand, was being driven towards Higham, and when nearing Rushden Post Office the motor steering gear went out of order. The lorry zig-zagged about from one side of the board to the other and back, finishing by charging into the boards next to the Post Office (fronting the Cottage garden). A man who was on the pavement at the time narrowly escaped serious injury. The lorry caught him and gave him a bit of a shaking, but fortunately nothing worse. About four yards length of fence was broken down, and the lorry was stopped in the garden. The motor windscreen was smashed. The lorry missed a sycamore tree on each side, merely grazing one and being clear of the other by inches only. Either tree would practically have stopped the vehicle. The lorry had to be unloaded, and was then able to be started up, turned around, and driven out. About £10 damage was done and is covered by insurance. The lorry (a four-ton vehicle) is of the “four-wheel drive” principle (power being applied to both front and back wheels, with the idea of preventing skids). The accident appears to have been caused by a skid, in spite of the drive principle. The front differential became locked, one wheel thus having double speed. There were five tons’ of sand on at the time of the accident.