MIRACULOUS ESCAPE
i FROM A FATAL COLLISION. By Telegraph.—(Special Correspondent.) Wanganui, February 22. ' The Wellington Road crossing at Marton, where two fatal accidents have already occurred, was the scene of >a most miraculous escape from a fatal collision last evening. As the 5.30 p.m. train was on its way to Wanganui a motor-car driven by a Palmerston resident, and containing three ladies and another gentleman, approached the crossing without noticing the train. The car was almost on the' lino when the train passed the crossing, and with groat presence of mind the driver turned the car almost parallel with the train, with the result that the front wheel of the car nearest the train was completely lyrenohed 'off by contact with the train, and the axle was also damaged. The occupants of the car escaped injury.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2702, 23 February 1916, Page 6
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136MIRACULOUS ESCAPE Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2702, 23 February 1916, Page 6
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