PERILOUS RIDE

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 32, 1 November 1933, Page 8

PERILOUS RIDE

Girl on Truck Buffers TRIP OF 4} MILES No 11l Effects Result Dominion Special Service. Dunedin, October 31. A remarkable experience befell a young woman who resides at Mosgiel while she was on her way to work in the city this morning. The girl, who is about 20 years of age, leaves Mosgiel daily by tlm five minutes past seven train, and* it has apparently been her practice, in commop with others, to take a short-cut to the passenger platform by going across the railway yards. This morning she found her way blocked by the southward-bound goods train, which was drawn up on the line between her and the train to Dunedin. The girl had just mounted the rafters between two sheep wagons to cross over, when the train started, and she was apparently unable to alight. She was noticed in her parlous position by passengers on the train for Dunedin, and railway officials were at once informed. By this time, however, the train had run past the signal-box, and it could not therefore be stopped by an official there. The Allanton station, four miles and a half from Mosgiel. was communicated with, and the train stopped there. Immediately it came to a standstill the girl, who bad-fortunately decided not to try to jump off as the train sped on, scrambled down from her dangerous position, and made straight back to Mosgiel. The distance, as stated, between the two stations, is four miles and a half, but the girl was so little distressed by her dangerous trip that she covered the mileage jn sufficiently quick time to enable her to catch the quarter-past-eight train from Mosgiel to Dunedin. The girl must be considered very lucky, but, in the meantime, officials of the Railway Department are desirous of interviewing her.