HEAD-ON SMASH
MIRACULOUS ESCAPE
FOUR PASSENGERS IN CAR
STRUCK BY TRAIN ON BRIDGE
RAIL STOPS FALL TO RIVER
[by telegraph —own correspondent] , GREYMOUTH, Sunday
Four persons experienced a miraculous escape from death when the car in which they were travelling was struck almost head-on by a train at tho Ngahere end of the Blackball combined rail and traffic bridge about seven o'clock last night. Tho driver of tho car was Mr. Michael Joseph Walsh, of Wataroa, South Westland. With him in tho front seat was his wife, while in tho back seat were their infant daughter and Mr. Walsh's brother, Mr. Jack Walsh. As a result of the impact the car was thrown against a bridge railing, which snapped off and was forced through tho back of the vehicle near tho child. Mrs. Walsh was in the act of reaching back to secure tho child and was struck a glancing blow on the side of the head, but her injury was not serious. Tho child escaped unhurt.
Tho car was extensively damaged by tho impact, but the fact that it was pierced by the railing saved it from capsizing into tho Grey lliver below.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23276, 20 February 1939, Page 10
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