MIRACULOUS ESCAPE
CAR COLLIDES WITH TRAIN TWO MEN INJURED. Per Press Association. GRETMOUTK, January 26. About 12.30 p.m. to-day a motor car drived by J. D.' Lynch, of Greymouth, at the approach of the northern en l of the Arahura combined road and railway bridge, met a special train from Hokitika. .There was heavy rain at the time and .the car driver failed to see the train until on the rails 1 turning to cross the bridge. The train was only a few yards away and pulled up in a remarkably short distance but failed to avert a collision. The car was smashed up, but Lynch and a passenger, W. Barnett, lad a miraculous escape, the former receiving a cut on the nose and the latter one on the back of the head, each requiring several stitches, otherwise they were uninjured.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12355, 27 January 1926, Page 6
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