CRASH INTO TRAIN
VAN DRIVER'S ESCAPE
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
CHRISTCHURCH, This Day.
Miraculously escaping serious injury when a milk van he was "driving crashed into a train at a level crossing in Fendalton this morning, A. Thain now lies in hospital with nothing worse than facial abrasions and shock.
The signals were set and the cross-ing-keeper was in the centre of the road with a stop-sign when the van approached. The crossing-keeper frantically signalled, but the driver went on and hit the centre of the train. The van was completely wrecked.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 36, 12 February 1936, Page 12
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