MOTOR-CAR HITS TRAIN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18297, 13 January 1923, Page 10

MOTOR-CAR HITS TRAIN.

MIRACULOUS ESCAPE. SLIGHT • INJURIES ONLY. I, [3X TXZ.SQSA.7fi.— < ASSOCIATION.] I . ( :.,■■;■ ,TB AWAMUTU. Friday. , A motor-car engaged in the Te-; Awa-,,mutu-Kawhia mail service ; crashed isito a train at the level crossing near the Te Awamutn railway station last" night. The car struck the truck the third/away from the engine, throwing the truck roB the rails.} The car was wrecked, its three occupants having a miraculous, escape. The effect, of the impact was to throw the car well -into the air, ■finally leaving; the remnants facing in the reverse": direction ;on the ■ road. The : driver, ■■• G. ■: C. Berry, was thrown headlong 'through the windscreen, striking the trucks and lying, within six inches'of the rails. Two passengers in the back seat were fhrown clear to the road, one escaping with minor scratches and the other sustaining injuries about the head. . The driver, Berry, was badly cut about, :;his nose -being broken. The crossing is dangerous, the train's approach being hidden by buildings 'and, it is surmised that the brakes in. this instance refused to act. There have been many narrow escapes ;■■. from ; similar accidents here. The department proposes shortly to erect an overhead, bridge as part of a schema or to rearrange V the station yard. : « '■' # >