ENGLISH TRAIN SMASH

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 408, 15 April 1937, Page 5

ENGLISH TRAIN SMASH

CAR JUMPS POINTS. WRECK AT CREWE STATION. Twenty People Injured. Press Assoclatlor.—Copyright. Receiv?d 10.50 a.tn. London, April 14. The Irish mai* train from Holyhead to London was run. ning into Crewe (Cheshire) station, when the restaurant car and another coach jumped the points and were wrecked. Twenty persons were injured, including the dining-car attendants. The coaches mounted the platform and toppled over. TRAM OUT OF CONTROL. - o—— CAR LEAVES RAILS IN DUNEDIN. Pedestrian Fatally Injured. Press Association—Copyright. Dunedin, Ajpril 15. Our of control on the steepest gradient ot all the tracks in Dunedin, a car thundered down Signal Hill Road at 7.35 o'clock this morning and, gathering speed, failed to (negotiate curve -""approaching tfie flat, Leaving the rails it cut through a water channel, mounted ,a footpath and tore through a paling fence ploughing to a standstill In » steep section overlooking the north east. As it crossed the pavement It ran down a pedestrian, Mr. John Kenny, who resided two doors away, carrying him with It down the bank. By phenomenal luck none of the passengers nor the motorman, were Injured, but Mr. Kenny, who was aged 50 and married, was so critically injured that he died shortly after admiselo-n to (hospital.