CLOSE TO TRAGEDY
WOMAN'S EXPERIENCE
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
NEW PLYMOUTH, This Day,
So close to tragedy was the driver of a car at Waipuku, near Stratford, yesterday, that the midday fast train to New Plymouth removed the crank handle and the front bumper. As the car stood where the woman driver halted it, successive carriages jolted it as they passed. The fast train from Wanganui was late yesterday and was making up time as it passed through Waipuku. The car, driven by a woman who had her small son with her, was almost on the rails when she saw the train approaching and succeeded in stopping just short of the line. Her husband was at the other side of the track, several yards away, and as the locomotive flashed across his view of his wife and hid the car from sight, he heard the initial crash and each successive impact of Car and carriage. The train pulled up rapidly, but no one was hurt. The car was badly strained and later was removed to Stratford for the chassis to be straightened.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 34, 9 February 1940, Page 6
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