RAILWAY TRUCKS BREAK AWAY
♦ COLLISION WITH MOTOR-CAR A rake of fully loaded trucks broke away at the Springfield railway station last Thursday night and ran eight miles down the main line. At the Waddington crossing they struck a car driven by Mr F, Jenkins, of Sheffield. Mr Jenkins, and the only other occupant of the car. Mrs Jenkins, escaped with slight bruises and abrasions, but the car was totally wrecked. The train was being made up at Springfield fortbetrip to Christchurch the next morning when the trucks moved down the yard. Darfield was notified that the trucks were out of control, and arrangements were made there to switch them to a siding. The , collision with Mr Jenkins’s car, how.ever, released the hand brake on the tacks and they stopped near the Race- ' Worn Hill railway station. The colWan occurred shortly before midnight
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Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24567, 16 May 1945, Page 8
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