COLLISION WITH TRAIN
SMASH AT WAIKOUAITI TAXI-DRIVER INJURED When the taxi which he was driving collided with a goods train at the main street crossing at Waikouaiti about 4.30 yesterday afternoon, Mr James Walker, a taxi driver, residing at 6 West avenue, St. Kilda, suffered injuries to the head and left ankle. He was admitted to the Dunedin Hospital at 10.45 last night. It is understood that a woman passenger suffered cuts to the face, and that she was attended by a doctor at Palmerston. The car, which collided with the third truck from the locomotive of the train, was extensively damaged. The train, which was bound from Palmerston to Dunedin, was not delayed.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24716, 19 September 1941, Page 4
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