A Narrow Escape.

Manawatu Herald, 20 March 1897, Page 3

A Narrow Escape.

»■ At 10 o'clock OQ Tuesday morning ( say* the Pott), whilst riding en a bicyole between 'Petone and Lower Hutt, Mr W. H Ruasell, of the Hansaid staff, narrowly escaped instant death, owing to collision with a track which was conveying earth to the 3 op bank works of the Petone Borough Council. Tnere is no signalman or bell at the place where the Coanoil'a track crosses the public road, , though such precautions are ntceisary. When Mr Russell became aware of the truck in the middle of tbe road he at once steered his machine to go behind it, as he thought, but to his horror found that it was moving in the opposite direction to what he had supposed, and by this tima it was impossible to get out of the way. Ha was thrown from bis bicycle, but managed by imart wriggling to get from under the wheels. He escaped with the spraining of tha fingers of hia right hand and bruises on his leg?. The truck passed over his bicycle — a Humber but strange to say, though the machine is much twisted and and doubled, it is not broken in any part.