CROSSING SMASH

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 103, 12 February 1936, Page 6

CROSSING SMASH

MIRACULOUS ESCAPE. VAN STRIKES RAILWAY TRAIN. BRUISED FACE AND SHOCK. (Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Miraculously escaping serious injury when a milk van lie was driving crashed into a train at a level crossing in Fendalton this morning, Mr A. Timm now lies in the hospital ivith nothing worse than facial abrasions and' shock. The signals Avere set and the cross-ing-keeper in the centre of the road Avith the “stop” sign. When the van approached the keeper frantically signalled, but the driver went on and Inc the centre of the train. The van was completely Avrecked.

MAN KILLED AND TWO INJURED. MOTOR-CAR SOMERSAU LTS. (Per Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, February 11. One man Avas killed and lavo others were seriously injured Avhen their car careered out of control for 100 yards, finally to turn several somersaults on the Waihi Road at Hawera to-night. Mr Charles Arnold Haylock, a raihvay fireman, single, aged 29, Avas killed. Those injured are Mr George Webster, raihvay fireman, avlio lias concussion and injuries to the back and an arm, and Mr Allan O. Sim, also a raihvay fireman, Avho has concussion, injuries to the hack, and abrasions. Both the injured men are single. Late to-night neither Avas out of danger, though Mi Sim Avas recovering from the effects of the concussion. Both had recovered consciousness. The car had just passed another vehicle Avhen it skidded off the camber of the road, bumped over a raised crossing and somersaulted into a telegraph pole.

MAN BADLY BURNED. WAIROA, February 11. Mr Ray Nicolson, aged, about 34, a single man, met Avith a very serious accident this afternoon at the Waikaremoana power works. He Avas found j n an out-station badly burned, apparently as a result of coming into contact with a 30,000-volt line. it. is unknown lioav the accident occurred. After first-aid treatment he was conveved to tho Wairoa Hospital. His condition is serious. CHILD DROWNED IN DIP. CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Carl Walter Brustad, aged two years and two months, only child of Mr Alt Brustad, Avas droAVlied in the dip of his father’s property at Waiau yesterday morning. Mr Brustad and others Avere in tho Avoolshcd talking, and the child was with them. He evidently wandered away, hut his action was unnoticed tor 10 minutes. A search Avas made, and almost immediately he Avas found m the sheep dip. Efforts at resuscitation failed. . Mr Brustad Avas formerly well knoAvn as’ a guide at tho Hermitage, Mount Cook. It will he recalled that Mrs Brustad, who Avas formerly Miss Aroha Clifford, died at the birth of this child.