MIRACLE OF LUCK
TRAIN SMASHES DAIRY VAN DRIVER EMERGES WITHOUT A SCRATCH. REMARKABLE ACCIDENT IN CHRISTCHURCH. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Mr David Perrin, driver of a dairy delivery van, believes that the age of miracles has not passed. On the Selwyn Street railway crossing, soon after 7.30 o'clock this morning, his van was struck broadside on by an outgoing goods train, hurled violently round with the force of the impact, thrown through the air, sent crashing through a five-railed hardwood cattle fence, and deposited as a buckled wreck in a depression on the side of the railway track. Mr Perrin, who had been hanging on to the steering wheel facing death during these terrifying seconds, emerged without a scratch. After a cup of tea supplied by the crossing keeper, Mr Perrin telephoned to the dairy for another van and a fresh supply of milk, and coolly drove away to finish his round, remarking as he left the scene of his adventure with death that he would take time off to buy an art union ticket.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 February 1940, Page 4
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