CROSSING COLLISION

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19247, 12 February 1937, Page 11

CROSSING COLLISION

TWO "MEN" IN HOSPITAL (Per Press Association.) DtJNEDIN, last night. }.A'ifi t 'a result,of a rake of trucks colliding this afternoon .with a motor lorry at a crossing oa the railway line ■which runs alonft' the foreshore fronting "Anderson's "bay road, two men received injuries which necessitated their removal to ''hospital. The injured men were: John Forrester, ji married man, rosidihg'.at 55 Fitzroy street, Cavershain, internal jnjuri.es, concussion and shock, placed on seriously ijl list; and George Mason, a married qnan, aged 23 years, residing at, Fairfield,, shock and abrasions to face and hands. .

Slxovtly before .3 o'clock the lorry, which, was driven by Mr. Mason, commenced to cross the line at the rear of a rake'of trucks which ■were being shunted. The' trucks were stationary when the lorry reached the line but, just as it was halfway across, the rake moved backwards and crashed into it. The lorry was thrown on its side, the body and cab being smashed almost to matchwood and Mason and Forrester were caught under the wreckage before they could spring clear,