LEVEL CROSSING ACCIDENT
(HI TEI.CSK.4rH.—rBESS ASSOCIATION.) AUCKLAND, 4th October. A suburban passenger train ran into a motor wagon at the King-street (Newmarket) level crossing this morning, cutting its way through the vehicle and tossing it on one side with its body wrecked and minus its back wheels. The driver was thrown on to a cattle stop on the track and, after remaining unconscious for a while, picked himself up in a bruised condition. The young man concerned, Robert Skelton, who is in the employ of his father, a carrier and coal dealer, was on hia way home from Avondale in charge of an empty wagon when the accident happened. He states that the bell at the crossing which is used to warn the public of the approach of a train, did not ring until the <Sigine was right on the vehicle, but it continued ringing for some time afterwards. The driver and fireman of the engine escaped injury, as also did the passengers on the train.
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Evening Post, Volume C, Issue 83, 5 October 1920, Page 7
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166LEVEL CROSSING ACCIDENT Evening Post, Volume C, Issue 83, 5 October 1920, Page 7
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