TRAIN WRECKS CAR.
LEVEL CROSSING ACCIDENT.
A motor-truck was wrecked and the driver, Thomas S. Drew, was seriouslyinjured, when his vehicle came into collision \yith a fruit train at a level crossing at Darra, Queensland, hist week. The train struck the truck at the back and hurled it into the air. It was turned completely round, and finally it crashed through a fence. Portions of the truck were strewn along the track, while drums of petrol were hurled in all directions, one of them landing in a paddock 50y«s. distant. Both the driver and fireman of the train suffered from shock.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19832, 30 December 1927, Page 9
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101TRAIN WRECKS CAR. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19832, 30 December 1927, Page 9
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