TOUCH AND GO

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16836, 27 December 1928, Page 14

TOUCH AND GO

LEVEL CROSSING SMASH. An extraordinary accident betel Air. >T. A. Grimwood, of the headquarters staff of the Union Steam Ship Co., on Saturday afternoon. Mr. Grimwood, who resides at Pharazyn street, Lower Hutt, was driving his ear over the railway crossing at Mailing’s (just beyond Lower Hutt), when his engine stalled. Then events happened swiftly. -The unfortunate driver, who could not get the engine to function correctly, heard and then saw the ■ approach of a train. He endeavored to signal the engine-driver to stop, but concluding that this was in vain, as the train showed no signs of pulling up. no made a jump from the ear just as the train came along at its ordinary rate of speed. Hail he jumped a second or two earlier he would have escaped without injury of any kind, but, leaving it to the last moment, he was struck by something, presumably his own car, as it was swept from the track by the cow-catcher of the railway engine, and deposited a complete wreck on the roadway. . Air. Grimwood was helped to, his home in Lower Hutt. On Alonday he was placed under the X-rays at Petono, and is undergoing treatment of an injured right knee and a wrenched spine. The car was a new one.