With hopes of reaching Springfield and then trucking his car to. Otira, Archie G. M'Alpine set out with two others from Christchurch about 5 a.m. A few minutes later his car was disabled at the Iliccarton railway crossing. The car had almost cleared the rails, when it was hit by the engine of a goods train on the left rear wing. The impact spun the car round to make it face in the opposite direction to which it was going, and it came' to a stop in the channelling. The occupants escaped unhurt, and the car received .trifling damage.
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Evening Star, Issue 19763, 13 January 1928, Page 10
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99Page 10 Advertisements Column 2 Evening Star, Issue 19763, 13 January 1928, Page 10
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