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COLLISION WITH TRAIN

MOTORIST'S LUCKY ESCAPE CAR BODYWORK TORN OFF A collision between a motor-car driven by Mr. L. W. J. Hay den, of Weymouth Road, Manurewa, and a cattle train, occurred on Saturday evening, at the crossing leading to the Westfield freezing works. The body of the car, a light sedan model, was torn completely from the chassis, but the driver escaped with a few scratches on the face. Mr. Hayden was driving southward on the Great South Road about 7 o'clock, and after he passed over the Westfield overhead bridge a rake of cattle trucks, hauled by a light locomotive, was approaching the crossing to the freezing works. When a collision seemed imminent, Mr. Hayden swerved to his right in an effort to enter an open gateway leading to the railway line. The front wheels of the car struck the footpath kerbing and the impact threw the car sideways against the moving trucks.

The collision stripped the body of the car from the chassis from the windscreen backward, and Mr. Hayden was left seated at the driving wheel in the open chassis, which was covered only by the floorboards. The car was later driven away under its own power.

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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22351, 24 February 1936, Page 8

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COLLISION WITH TRAIN New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22351, 24 February 1936, Page 8

COLLISION WITH TRAIN New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22351, 24 February 1936, Page 8