CROSSING SMASH.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20026, 6 September 1930, Page 16

CROSSING SMASH.

ACCIDENT AT SOCKBURN. ONE MAN INJUREDThree people had a narrow escape from death or serious injury «hen a car in which they were riding hit by a train at the Sockburn crossing: last evening. • James McClintock. of Craigh . street, Timaru, received head *nj and shock. He was admitted to Christ-church Public Hospital and condition is reported as satisfacto yMiss Hopkins, of Timaru who was driving, the car, and her brother other passenger —escaped without juries. . The accident occurred at 7 goods train had just pulled °V?!? the Middleton Yards for Springfield, and it was due to pass over the cro ® 9 " in2 at seven o'clock, where iw s P would have been about 25 miles a» hour. The car was going towards Christchurch at a moderate speed. Tlie driver apparently saw the light of tno crossing keeper, who was on duty, a* the last minute, and jamming on the brakes, stopped right across the unes. The engine nit the car in the middle, throwing it clear of the line, and lt finished about a chain from the crossing against a fence, a portion of which ivas torn away. It is stated that considering the force of the impact the car was not badly damaged. , The train was held up for about a quarter of an hour. None of the occupants of the car was thrown out, but all were batjl.y shaken. Mr McClintock was taken to the Hospital by a passing , motorist. The accident occurred at the sa ™ e level crossing where six people, the driver of a car, four t nurses ana the engine drivor, were killed in a smash on June 16th last.