50 years ago

A lorry driver’s quick reactions saved him from severe injury and possibly death in a Perthshire glen yesterday. John Hughes (55) of Wallasey, leaped from the cabin of his oil tanker just as it was about to plunge more than 20 feet down an embankment into a burn on the Quarry Bends, Glenfarg. Even at this, Mr Hughes was amazingly lucky not to be badly injured, for as the tanker, which was carrying 1,200 gallons of oil toppled over, the side of one of the back wheels struck him on the ankles.