TWO LEVEL CROSSING ACCIDENTS.
TRAINS COLLIDE AYfITH BUS AND LORRY. NO ONE FATALLY INJURED. Auckland, June 2G. As the Limited express inward bound was passing over the double line level crossing at Southdown at 9.15 a.m. it collided with a bus owned by the Passenger Transport Company and driven by E. Edwards. It was a head-on collision. Edwards jumped clear before the bus was hurled into the air. It careered some distance and was jammed into a cattle-stop. Edwards was rendered unconscious when he hit the ground, but he recovered and was only slightly bruised. There were.no passengers in the bus. AAbanganui, June 26. The mixed goods and passenger train, which connects at Marton with the Auckland express and brings passengers to AYanganui, this morning hit a five-ton lorry laden with metal at the Cherry Bank level crossing. The lorry driver, J. Minnell, had his left arm smashed, and also sustained a scalp wound. The was smashed to pieces.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3811, 28 June 1928, Page 3
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159TWO LEVEL CROSSING ACCIDENTS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3811, 28 June 1928, Page 3
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