RAILWAY ACCIDENT
MAN'S MAiRVBLEDTTS ESCAPE FEOM . 1 DEATH. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Hamilton, May 17. When the Auck'land-Rotorua express was passing oyer the Norton Road level crossing at Frankton Junction this afternoon, it dashed into a lorry driven by M. J. Carroll, who was engaged carting gravel in connection with alterations to the New. Zealand Dairy . Association's factory near by. Carroll had. a most marvellous escape .from instant death. Tho engine struck the two horses attached to tho lorry, killlhg them instantly and wrecking a portion of the front of the lorry. Notwithstanding the impact, Carroll never lpst : his seat, and, with tho exception of losing some skin, he practically escaped injury of any sort. He did not notice tho 1 approaching train until too late.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3087, 18 May 1917, Page 7
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125RAILWAY ACCIDENT Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3087, 18 May 1917, Page 7
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