SMASH AT CROSSING
TRAILER BADLY DAMAGED TWO MEN HAVE NARROW ESCAPE (Special to THE SUN.) ' FEILDING, Sunday. A collision between a truck, with a trailer attached, and l South-bound Limited express, o • red at Gladstone Street crossing 6.30 a.m. to-day. The truck wasdri by Mr. Butler and manned by Walters. The engine crashed into the C both of which were severely daroag The connecting link with tne * snapped before the force of tn .j er pact. The wheels of , a b o ut crumpled up, and it was car J l ® heing 50 yards along the track befor thrown clear. _. the When the train st °PP®* ne "covSouth Street crossing it was ered that the engine had bee con _ damaged. The train was able icorth. tinue its journey to Palmerstonhowever. . their Mr. Butler, commenting on Glad _ miraculous escape, said that t . the stone Street crossing wras on the worst in Feilding. on aceoiin trucking yards in the vic:.m *h«tructed The railway goods shed ° oDr oach all view of the line at tn® ‘ jiffifrom the gas works, and u . re was cult to ascertain whether „ . any traffic on the line the crossing*
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 129, 22 August 1927, Page 12
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191SMASH AT CROSSING Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 129, 22 August 1927, Page 12
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