DOMINION NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 66, 26 March 1913, Page 3

DOMINION NEWS.

A NARROW ESCAPE

(Per Press Association.)

Palmerston North, March 24

A party of motorists travelling to the Feilding races to-day had a narrow escape at a crossing four miles from Feilding. The car, with five occupant®, was running at a fair pace, where the road unexpectedly converge® in and crosses the railway. The driver did not observe this, and steeled right into the Auckland mail, which was thundering past. • With great presence of mind he threw all the brakes on and pulled up a foot or two from the train. The front wheel was buckled and the motor car overturned, but no one was hurt, although all were shaken. A MOTOR CAR SOMERSAULTS. Invercargill, March 21. A serious motor spill occurred when several parties were returning to town to-day after the Riverton races. A car driven by T. Stone, when passing another driven by A. H. King, of the Bluff, apparently touched, with the result that King’s car turned a double somersault. The occupants, including Mrs King and Mr and Mrs Ernest Nichol, of Bluff, were thrown out, and were all more or less shaken and bruised. They were attended to in Invercargill, and no permanent injury is anticipated.