YOUNG MAN KILLED AT LEVEL CROSSING
[Per Press Association. -- Copyright J AUCKLAND, This Day.
Within 100 yards of his home, Mr C. T, Edlin, of Jersey Avenue, Mount Albert, was killed at about 12.45 this afternoon when a five-seater sedan car he was driving collided with a northbound train, at the Woodward Road railway crossing.
The bar was struck in the vicinity of the driver’s seat and was carried along the line and thrown about 75ft. from the roadway. The car was wrecked.
Mr Edlin is a young man and a blacksmith at the Otahuhu railway workshops.
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Northern Advocate, 28 December 1937, Page 5
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