Hit By Train, Survived
(N.Z. Press Association) HASTINGS. A 14-year-old boy escaped with only cuts and bruises when a train rammed the car in which he was a passenger last night, smashing it into a tangled mass of metal. The boy, James Lewis, of Te Hauke, was trapped in the car after it skidded on the
[main highway south of Hastings, near Te Hauke, at 10.19 Ip.m. The car hit a telegraph pole, crashed through a wire fence and landed upside down on the railway line. The driver, Hira Nathan, aged 30, of Te Hauke, climbed out but could not release the boy from under the dashboard. Just after he climbed from the railway line to the road
to get help, a goods train hit the car. Under the impact of the locomotive the car bounced several times against the railway embankment. The boy was pulled from the wreckage and found to have only minor injuries. The locomotive crew were shaken but not hurt. The locomotive cab was slightly damaged and the main steam pipe burst.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31119, 23 July 1966, Page 3
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