LEVEL-CROSSING SMASH.
MOTOR LORRY WRECKED. AUCKLAND, June 2. A level crossing accident occurred at Church road crossing, near Onehungu, early this evening, when a motor lorry was smashed to matchwood by a train proceeding from Auckland to Otahuhu. The driver of the lorry, William Sheppard, aged 2G, escaped with fractured ribs, while the other occupant, T. Horne, received abrasions about the head and hands. Tho train caught the rear part of the lorry, and the impact swung it several feet away from the line. One of the rear wheels was completely torn off, as also was the hood over the driver’s seat. A peculiar feature of the accident was that the men had just brought a woman to the Auckland Hospital, and were retum-t ing home when the accident occurred.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3769, 8 June 1926, Page 30
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130LEVEL-CROSSING SMASH. Otago Witness, Issue 3769, 8 June 1926, Page 30
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