MOTOR AND TRAIN.
i A. NARROW ESCAPE; (By Telegraph.—Press; Association.) Palmerstoiv North, March 21. j A party -of motorists travelling to tho FcUding races to-day had; a narrow escape 'at a crossing four, miles, from Feeding. ■Tllo car, with five occupants, was running at a fair pace. Tho road- unexpectedly converges 111 and crosses the railway. The driver did'not: observe this, and Etdercd right into the Auckland mail, •which, was tlu'imkrina:. past; With great presence- of mind he throw, all the brakes ion, and. pulled; up d. foot or two'from tho train. Tho- front wheel' was buckled and the motor-car overturned,, but 110 one was. hurt.
: Two men wore killed and, four injured by tho collayso of- a cliff' at Rottiligdean. near Brighton, which they- wiw engaged 'in slrcngthoniiKr.. Silv Edward! Carson, j who lives at Ruttingdean, sent-his motorcur to assist in removing tho injured. At Plymouth a medical research student was found- dead in bed. Ho had: apparently taken a whiff of . chloroform: from a lwttlo to induco slefcp, and, the bedclothes being over him, lie did not wase again.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1706, 25 March 1913, Page 4
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181MOTOR AND TRAIN. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1706, 25 March 1913, Page 4
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