CROSSING COLLISIONS
DRIVER’S BROKEN ARM (Per Press Association.) WANGANUI, June 2G. The mixed goods-passenger . train, which connects at Marton with the Auckland Express and brings passengers to Wanganui, this morning hit a five-ton Thornycroft lorry, laden with metal, at the Cherry Bank level crossing. The lorry driver, J. Minnell, had his left arm smashed, and also sustained scalp wounds. The lorry was smashed to pieces. LIMITED HITS LORRY. AUCKLAND, June 26. As the Limited express, inward bound was passing over a double line level crossing at Southdown at 9.15 a.m., it collided with a bus owned by the Passenger Transport Company, and driven by E. Edwards. It was a head on collision. Edwards jumped clear before the bus was hurled into the air. It careered for some distance, and was jammed into a cattle stop. Edwards was rendered unconscious when he/ hit the ground, but recovered, and was only slightly bruised. There were no passengers in the bus.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 26 June 1928, Page 5
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