TRAIN STRIKES CAR
SMASH AT HORNBY. [PEB PBEBS ASSOCIATION.] CHRISTCHURCH, February 9. A spectacular level-crossing accident in which the single occupant of a large five-seater sedan motor-car escaped serious injury occurred at the Hornby crossing on the Main South road at 10.30 last evening. The injured man, Reginald Cockle, aged 29, of 170 Waltham Road, was going south over the crossing, when the rear of his car was struck by the Little River goods train, which was going west along the branch line toward Hornby station on the main line. The train was going very slowly at the time, and pulled up with the ten der of the engine still on the crossing. The motor-car was struck at the left rear door and somersaulted across the road, coming to rest on its wheels on the intersection of the Main South and Junction roads. It had both left wheels ripped off and was otherwise badly damaged. The force of the impact twisted the coupling on the front of the engine. The train was delayed for mere than half an hour.
Cockle was unconscious when he was taken from the car, but became semi-conscious before his removal in a St. John Ambulance to the Christchurch Public Hospital. He suffered head injuries, and was still semi-con-scious, but not in a serious condition at an early hour this morning.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 10 February 1938, Page 4
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