Shockingly Injured By Train
[Per Press Association. —Copyright.! NEW PLYMOUTH, This pay.
Shocking injuries to his left leg, left arm, and chest were suffered by a youth when he attempted to board the Taumarunui excursion train as it moved out of the New Plymouth railway station on Sunday shortly after 5 p.m. The victim was: Andrew Wilson, aged 17, of Manunui, near Taumarunui.
The train had just started, and was travelling at about 10 m.p.h. when Wilson, carrying a parcel under his right arm, rushed through the eastern entrance to the station, and made a daSh for the front of the third from last carriage.
. In spite of a warning shout from a station official, he jumped toward the step of the carriage, but he missed the grip of the handrail with his left hand, and collided heavily with the moving train.
The impact threw him full length on to the station platform, with his legs projecting over the edge. As a result his feet were struck by the rear car as they passed, and, rolling over, he was dragged off the platform to fall on the side of the track.
Amputation of both the left leg and arm was found necessary at the hospital. Wilson had come from Manunui on an excursion train to spend the day at Ngamotu beach.
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Northern Advocate, 3 January 1939, Page 9
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