TRAIN STRIKES VAN
MAN AND BOY HURT (By Telegraph—Press Association.) INVERCARGILL, June 5. Head injuries were received by Douglas Coster, aged 16, Invercargill, and an injured hand by W. Cook, farm manager for Sir William Hunt, when a milk van in ifrhich they wer« travelling collided with a goods train from Eden dale at a level crossing yesterday. The van was struck on tha right hand side near the front, It Capsized and one of the front wheels wa« torn off. Coster, who was driving, wa» thrown against . the horizontal rails used for cattle stops and was rendered unconscious. His condition is not serious.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 131, 6 June 1938, Page 3
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