AT 60 MILES AN HOUR

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 27 December 1924, Page 7

AT 60 MILES AN HOUR

EXTRA EDITION.

■TRAIN AND MOTOR CRASH. . ; OCCUPANTS’ THRILLING ESCAPE. Many truly remarkable reports emanate front the land, of the Stars -and Stripes. For sheer sensationalism the following cable message will surely ; be in the front rank. . That a train travelling at 60 miles ah hour should crash into a motorcar and all three occupants escape is hardly creditable. , ' BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT NEW YORK, Dee. 26. Kenneth Clarke took his wife and his mother-in-law for a motor ride 7 on Christmas night. When, crossing the railway line the motor stalled just as an . express train, ■ travelling at sixty miles an hour, passed. Clarke and his mother-in-law were uninjured. .Though both searched diligently they found no trace of the wife. A few minutes later a farmer at a wayside station saw a woman clinging to the front of a locomotive. It took fifteen minutes ■to convince the driver that he had a new passenger.. Mrs. Clarke was unconscious from cold, .having travelled sixteen miles and would probably have perished soon. - Otherwise she was unhurt., ... .