ENGINE AND TRUCK DERAILED
Collision With Lorry By Telegraph—Press Association. Hastings, March 25. A level-crossing collision which resulted in the derailment of an engine and truck occurred at the Carroll Street crossing, Wairoa, at 7.45 a.m. between a Public Works Department workers’ train returning from Whakahi and a lorry owned by the Wairoa County Council and driven by Mr. P. Mellan. No one was hurt, the driver of the motor-lorry having a remarkable escape. The lorry was turned broadside on to the engine, the only damage being scratches to the mudguards and paintwork. The front wheels of the engine left the rails and the truck mounted the couplings of the engine and then landed on the cattle-stop. A breakdown gang was soon on the scene and the engine was jacked back to the rails.
This is the second accident within the past six or seven months at the same locality.
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 154, 26 March 1938, Page 13
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