"STOP, LOOK, LISTEN"
TRAIN" RAMMED BY LORRY
(Special to "The Evening Post") PALMERSTON X., This Day Almost, every week the Press of New Zealand publishes.an account of a-lorry being run into by a train, but yesterday the order was reversed when a lorry ran into the New Plymouth express as it was passing over the level crossing at Greatford. No reason is given for the extraordinary mishap. The driver, a man named Pask, residmg in Feilding, had a miraculous escape, but his vehicle was badly damaged, as were also two railway carriages which the lorry struck.' The platform steps were ripped off, the side panelling was torn extensively, and some windows were broken.> A Maori boy in one of the carriages 'had his face cut by broken glass, but no other passengers were hurt. The damaged „ cars were taken off at Palmcrstoii North and replaced.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 48, 26 February 1927, Page 10
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