CAR STRUCK BY TRAIN

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 77, 23 December 1937, Page 5

CAR STRUCK BY TRAIN

-Press Association.T

Crushed Against Post DRIVER UNINJURED.

(By Telegraph-

AUCKLAND, Last Night. A fortunate escape from injury wai experienced by Mr Henry E. Russell, of Woodville, on the Great South road at Westfield to-night, when his motor-car was struck and extensively damaged by a rake of meat waggons at a privato railway crossing outside Westfield frqezing works. Mr Russell was driving northward on the main road, which was carrying tho customary heavy volume of traffie during peak hours. A motor-car travelling ahead of Mr Russell's small saloon car. stopped after passing over the aingle railway track, and he was forced to halt on the line. Before he could move the first of five large meat waggons, which were being shunted out of the works yard by a locomotive, struck his car and dragged it along the track. Before the rake of waggons could bo stopped, the car was carried about 25ft, and jammed against the post of tho fence protecting the cattle stop on tho western side of the road. Fortunately, the car swung sideways under the forco of the waggons and slewed clear of tho track. The driver's side of the car was smashed and bent. Both wheels were crushed and twisted and the back mudguard was ripped off and rolled up like a piece of rag.