SENSATIONAL MOTOR ACCIDENT.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13232, 28 September 1908, Page 8

SENSATIONAL MOTOR ACCIDENT.

MIRACULOUS ESCAPE. . • '-*^f

(rHISS ASSOCIATION TELEGKAM). ~ 4^^ PALMERSTON NORTH, Septembeci£ *J| A sensational motor-car accident W , curred here o.n Saturday, South -express collided with a car taming Mr "Whishaw (a welWroow»"*j|§ land agent) and lire Rollctt, six-year-old sou. The party turning to Fcilding from and the car wae going fast towards iWCJpI Alexandra street crossing, when. cident occurred. VThishaw did cot #»$& tine train till Hie was nearly in main street, when he put the brakes sgjg full 'on, ploughing up the road's laeW/ag As this did not etop him, he opened throttle and tried to pase at fnll slewing as he did so to get the oollisioi» -533 at tne back part of the cwv fg The train smashed into the, neau, knpekinc the- whole _ car off ,V>M? the line, _aud turning ill over-"--*® Whishaw and Mrs Rollefct were iJmwa <$g dear of the train, but the boy wa*J&y--p some extraordinary aroans pftked op ..'S by the cowcatcher of the second M motive, and carried fifty yards.' T?**- l| train was stopped in ite own lengthy v The car was badly smashed. WhJWU*, who had been thrown into a large iron. - ; * drainnipe, v had two of his ribs broken and a"n ankle sprained. Mrs Eollett a, ;| bruised all over, but has no bopa« ' broken. The child escaped with a few, bruises. v ;J$