VAN WRECKED BY TRAIN
DRIVER'S LUCKY ESCAPE [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION'] CHRISTCHURCH, Monday On the Selwvn Street railway crossing soon after 7.30 this morning » dairy delivery van driven by Mr. I). Perrin was struck broadside on by an outgoing goods train, hurled violently round with the force of the impact, thrown through the air to crash through a five-railed hardwood cattle fence, and deposited a buckled wreck in a depression on the side of. the raiilwav track.
Mr. Perrin, who had been hanging on to the steering wheel facing death during these terrifying seconds, emerged without a scratch.
After a cup of tea supplied by the crossing-keeper,, he telephoned to the dairy for another van and fresh supply of milk, and coolly drove away*to liniisli his' round, remarking as he left; t' l ® scene of his miraculous escape he would take time off to buy an art union ticket. . ■ .
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23591, 27 February 1940, Page 6
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