A NARROW ESCAPE
TRAIN AND MOTOR-LORRY AT A
CROSSING.
(BT TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION.)
CHRISTCHUKCH, This Day. The north bound train at Riccarton road crossing at 5.30 this morning struck a motor truck driven by A. H. Parish and-turned it completely round without throwing the driver out, but smashed the wheels. Parish says he was travelling at ten miles an hour. There was no crossing-keeper or signals, and he did not see the train till it was on him. He owed his escape to the fact that he accelerated instead of applying . the brakes. The driver of the train claims that he whistled. The crossing is a bad one, the scene of fatalities in the past.
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 74, 25 September 1923, Page 8
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115A NARROW ESCAPE Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 74, 25 September 1923, Page 8
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