LORRY DRIVER KILLED.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 36, 22 November 1939, Page 7

LORRY DRIVER KILLED.

COLLISION WITH TRAIN. (Per Press Association). HAMILTON, November 21. Injuries, from which ho died abopt two flours after admission to hospital, were suffered by the driver of a cream lorry Avhcn the A r ehicle was involved iu a collision Avith a goods train on the Piako crossing, near Morrinsville, this morning. The lorry Avas lifted bodily on to the front of the engine and carried, for 50 yards before being dashed to pieces on the side of the track. The driver Avas thrown out of the cab. The’victim was Mr Samuel Thompson, aged 51, married, of Waihou, a lorry driver, employed by Mr F. J. iSmethurst, contractor, of Waihou. When the accident occurred, Mr Thompson Avas travelling to a dairy factory at Morrinsville with a load of cream : A passenger train had just passed over the crossing and was being folloAved by a cattle train Avhon the lorry approached the lino. The engine caught the vehicle off its side and carried it oyer the cattle stop, and in the process the driver was thrown out of the cab.

According to the police, there were hardly tAvo pieces of wood from the damaged lorry measuring more than tAvo feet in length, Avhile the chassis Avas a tangled heap.