YOUNG DRIVER’S ESCAPE
CAR AND TRAIN COLLIDE CROSSING- ACCIDENT (Per Tress Association.) ' INVERCARGILL, last night. A collision between a train from Tuatapere and a motor car which occurred at a railway crossing at the foot of Victoria avenue, near the Borstal Institute, resulted in injuries to the head being suffered by the driver ot the car. Leslie Collett, aged 15. He was admitted to the Southland Hospital at Kew, suffering from injuries mentioned. Collett was bringing the car, a newone, home from the Drill Hall, where it had been stored. The side of the motor car which received the impact was badly damaged, and the interior at the front also suffered considerably, although the fact that the car was equipped with safety glass, and was probably held upright by the cowcatcher of the engine, undoubtedly saved the driver from more serious injury.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19364, 30 June 1937, Page 12
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