COLLISION AT CROSSING
LORRY AND TEAM. MAN SERIOUSLY INJURED. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) Hastings, this day. An unemployed relief worker. Mr. Francis Payne, was seriously injured this morning when a lorry carrying thirty unemployed men to relief works collided with an early goods train at Southampton Street level crossing. Another occupant, Mr. T. T. O'Sullivan, was slightly injured, but all the others escaped unhurt. The lorry had almost crossed the line when the collision took place and the rear of the vehicle was badly shattered. Mr. Payne, who is a married man, was taken to the Hastings Memorial Hospital, where he was found to be badly injured about the head and suffering from concussion.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVI, Issue 3399, 28 July 1932, Page 5
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