NEARLY AN ACCIDENT
CLOSE CALL AT HUNTERVILLE,
Inquiries are beng made by he New Zealand Hallways -Department into an affair which occurred at Hunterville on Thursday morning. It is said that just as the south-bound Main Trunk express had drawn into the Hunterville platform the express for the north dashed by at full speed on the mctails that the soutlp ern train had only just vacated. In other words, a head-on collision was most narrowly avoided. Who was responsible chnnot be said at presen. Each express was travelling nt a speed of between 35 and 40 miles an hour. There were some 400 passengers on the north-bound train and 200 on the down train. The consequences of a collision can be easily imagined. \
Speaking on the subject to a reporter yesterday morning, Mr. J. M'.Donald, Assistant General Manager of Railways, said ho was not yet in possession of sufficient information to enable him io make a detaileel statement. The General Manager (Mr. R. W. M'Villy) was due buck from the South Island on Sunday, and in the meantime Messrs. E. E. Gillon (chief mechanical engineer), J. B. Mitchell (manager at Ohakune), and H. J. Wynne (signal engineer) had been sent up to Hunterville to institute inquiries.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 125, 19 February 1921, Page 7
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206NEARLY AN ACCIDENT Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 125, 19 February 1921, Page 7
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