MOTOR-CYCLE COLLIDES WITH TRAIN
MAN FATALLY INJURED \ (By Telegraph—Press Association) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Reginald Foster Painter, aged 27 years, single, a carpenter, of Darfield, recevied fatal head injuries when his motor-cycle collided with a train at a crossing in the centre of Rakaia township yesterday afternoon. Painter was returning from a football match in Rakaia and went through a gap in some trucks. Shunting was being done at the station and although Painter was travelling very slowly, he hit an engine passing on another line. He could not save himself and it is thought that his head struck the engine about the firebox. Painter died 40 minutes after the accident.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 25 May 1936, Page 4
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