CROSSING SMASH
LORRY DRIVER KILLED. TRAGEDY NEAR MORRINSVILLE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) HAMILTON. November 21. Terrible injuries from which he died about two hours after his admission to hospital were received by the driver of a cream lorry when the vehicle was involved in a collision with a goods train on the Pinko crossing near Morrinsville, today. The lorry wtis lifted bodily on to the front of the engine and carried for 5( yards before being dashed to pieces on the side of the track. The drivel was thrown out of the. cab. He wa. Samuel Thompson, aged 51. married of Waihou, and employed by Mr F. J. Smethurst. contractor. When the accident occurred Thompson was travelling to the dairy factory at Morrinsville with a load of cream. A passenger train had just passed ovei the crossing and was being followed bv a cattle train, the engine of which caught the lorry on its side. According to the police there were hardly two pieces of wood from the damaged lorrymeasuring more than two feet in length. The chassis was a tangled heap of metal.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 November 1939, Page 7
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183CROSSING SMASH Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 November 1939, Page 7
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