SHUNTING ACCIDENT.
DERAILMENT OF TRUCK.
MAN SLIGHTLY INJURED. /
[BY TELEGRAPH.—OWN CORRESPONDENT.] NEW PLYMOUTH, Friday. One truck was derailed, another lifted from one rail and tilted ove.r, a motorlorry slightly damaged and a railway shunter slightly injured, in a collision in shunting operations at thS New Plymouth yards late yesterday. The lorry was loading cement near the points and insufficient clearance was left between a line of moving trucks. The lorry was saved from more severe damage by the derailment of a truck.
A shunter, Mr. J. Faulkner, who was on the line of moving trucks, received bruises, but was able to proceed home after receiving medical attention.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20426, 30 November 1929, Page 12
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