WELSH TRAINS COLLIDE.
TEN PASSENGERS INJURED. FATHER AND SON AS DRIVERS. tßeceived 5.5 p.m.) p.,,, LONDON. Oct.. J2. A serious accident occurred in Wales. Seeing that his only chance of avoiding a collision was to dash across the line before the arrival of a steam train the driver of an electric train, which was approaching the iunction at Llandudno station, just •failed to clear the danger point. The third coach of the electric tram, containing 40 school children, was partial! v wrecked. None of the children were seriously injured. The fourth carriage was smashed to matchwood and 10 passengers were inj a red. An extraordinary feature of the accident is that ihe drivers of the two trains were father and son.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19148, 14 October 1925, Page 11
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121WELSH TRAINS COLLIDE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19148, 14 October 1925, Page 11
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