HURLED THROUGH AIR
TRAIN HITS TRUCK DRIVER’S LUCKY ESCAPE A miraculous escape from death was made by Mr. Harry Marshall, the driver of a two-ton truck when his lorry and a goods train disputed the right of way on the Blake Street level crossing, at Avondale, yesterday afternoon. The noise of the truck, going up-hill in low gear, drowned the warning bell on the crossing, and the smoke from a small fire prevented the driver seeing the wig-wag. He did not hear an engine whistle. A north-bound train and the truck arrived on the crossing together with the result that the lorry driver was thrown several feet through the air, but escaped serious injury. The truck was hit with sufficient force to upend it, and leave it facing the opposite way. The truck was very badly damaged.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 163, 30 September 1927, Page 9
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137HURLED THROUGH AIR Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 163, 30 September 1927, Page 9
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