Remarkable Escape Of Milk Van Driver
[Per Press Association. Copyright ] CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Mr Dave Perrin, driver of a dairy delivery van, believes the age of miracles has not passed. On the Selwyn Street railway crossing soon after 7.30 this morning, his van was struck broadside on by an outgoing goods train, hurled violently round with the force of the impact, thrown through the air to crash through a five-railed hardv/ood cattlefence and deposited a buckled wreck, in a depression on the other side of the railway track. Mr Perrin, who had been hanging on to the steering wheel, facing death during the terrifying seconds, emerged without a scratch. After a cup of tea supplied by the crossing-keeper, he telephoned to the dairy for another van and a fresh supply of milk, and drove away to finish his round, remarking as hie left the scene of his miraculous escape he would take time off to buy an art union ticket.
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Northern Advocate, 26 February 1940, Page 6
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