LEVEL CROSSING SMASH.
TRAIN AND WAGON COLLIDE. NO ONE SERIOUSLY HURT. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. A suburban passenger train ran into a motor wagon at the King Street (Newmarket) level crossing this morning, cutting its way through the vehicle and tossing it on one side, with the body wrecked and minus the back wheels. The driver was landed on to a cattle stop on the, track, and after remaining unconscious for a while, picked himself up in a bruised condition/ The young man concerned, Robert Skelton, who is in the employ of his father, a carrier and coal dealer, was on fcis way home from Avondala in charge nf an empty wagon when the accident happened. He states that the bell at the crossing, which is used to warn the public of the approach of a train, did not ring until the engine was right on the vehicle, but it continued ringing for »ome time afterwards. The driver and fireman of the engine escaped injury, as also did the passengers.
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Taranaki Daily News, 5 October 1920, Page 5
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172LEVEL CROSSING SMASH. Taranaki Daily News, 5 October 1920, Page 5
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