FALL FROM TRAIN
BABY AT CARRIAGE WINDOW INJURIES NOT SERIOUS OPUA EXPRESS ACCIDENT A remarkable escape from serious injury was experienced by a two-year-old child, Barry Humphries, son of Mrs. M. Humphries, of 19 Boston Road, Mount Eden, when he fell from a window of a carriage of the Opua express near Kaiwaka shortly after noon yesterday. The child was travelling with his mother and fell from the train on a downhill stretch about three-quarters of a mile south of the Kaiwaka railway station. Another passenger promptly applied the emergency brake and the train, after stopping, backed to the scene of the accident.
The boy was found lying by the side of the line, and did not appear to be seriously injured. At Paparoa. about 15 miles further north, the child was attended by a doctor and was admitted to the Paparoa hospital. He is suffering from head injuries and will be kept' in the hospital for observation.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22988, 16 March 1938, Page 12
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