South Yorkshire Times, July 2nd 1955
Driver hurt, Stock scattered
Chapeltown man’s Conisbrough spill
A Chapeltown man – and some sheep, pigs and bullock, consigned to a Sheffield butcher – had a lucky escape from serious injury on Wednesday when the lorry they were in fell on its side into a field 6 feet below the road at Hilltop, Conisbrough.
The driver, Mr. Charles Bailey, (38), of Chapeltown, walked through the darkness with a dislocated shoulder to Hillhouse farm where he knocked up Mr. And Mrs. F. Ogley.
Mrs. Ogley gave first aid and with her husband went to the scene of the crash.
They opened the lorry doors and frightened pigs, sheep and a bullock rushed pass them into the night. The crash had killed one pig.
“We spent the rest of the night looking for them” said Mrs. Ogley. Next morning the driver returned after a visit to the infirmary, and with his injured arm strapped up, resumed the search for their missing animals.
Hours later some lambs, a pig and a bullock were still missing.