CAR WRECKED
STRUCK BY A TRAIN MIRACULOUS ESCAPES A miraculous escape from serious injury was experienced by Mr. R. D. Knight, farmer, of Longburn, id Longburn on Thursday when the car he was driving was struck by a train. Mr. Knight was emerging from a side road on to the main highway, which necessitated crossing the railway line. He said he neither saw nor heard the approach of the train. The impact smashed the car to pieces, but all the driver suffered was a bruise on the leg. He had as a passenger Miss Harding, who lives With Mr, and Mrs. Knight, and she was equally fortunate, suffering bruises only. The collision crippled the engine oi the train, which had to be side-tracked and another obtained from Palmerston North.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20093, 13 November 1939, Page 2
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129CAR WRECKED Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20093, 13 November 1939, Page 2
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