SENSATIONAL MOTOR, CAR ACCIDENT.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3003, 28 September 1908, Page 5

SENSATIONAL MOTOR, CAR ACCIDENT.

COLLISION WITH A TRAIN. NO LIVES LOST. A BOY'S MIRACULOUS ESCAPE. By Telegraph—Press Association. PALMERSTON N., Sept. 27. / A sensational motor car accident occurred here on, Saturday, when (he south express collided with a 12-14 horse-power Singer motor containing Mr Whishaw, a well-known land agent and Mrs Rollett and her six-year-old son. The party were returning to Fell *.- ing from Wellington, and the car was going fast towards the Alexardra Street level, crossing when the acci dent occurred. Mr Wishaw did not see the train till he was nearly in the main street, when he put the brakes on full. As this couldn't stop him at the pace he was going he opened the throttle and tried to pass at top speed, slewing as he did as to get the collision behind. The train smashed into the car, knocking the whole cur off the line and turning it over. Mr Whishaw and Mm Kollett were thrown clear of the train, but the boy was by some extraordinary means picked up by the cowcatcher of the second locomotive and carried fifty yards. The train was stopped in its own length. The car, all but the encine, radiator and ge?r box was smashed. Mr Whishav , who had been thrown in a large iron drain-pipe, had two front ribs smashed and an ankle sprained. Mrs Kollett is bruised all over, but has no b.nes broken. The child has a swollen hsad and black eye ai<d bruises.