Train hit by car
By
HEATHER CHALMERS
A Christchurch woman was lucky to escape uninjured after the car she was driving hit a train in Rangiora at 10 a.m. yesterday. Mrs Jackie Drummond, aged in her mid-60s, was travelling west on Kippenberger Avenue when she was blinded by the sun and failed to see the locomotive heading south. The crash damaged the rear side panels of the car on the driver’s side and ruptured the petrol tank. Mrs Drummond, although shaken, walked away from the accident without a scratch, said a Ministry of Transport officer at Rangiora, Les Platt.
“She had everything in her advantage. She was travelling slowly and the train was travelling slowly,” he said.
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