STATE DEATH TRAPS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXVII, Issue 10737, 30 August 1913, Page 4

STATE DEATH TRAPS.

FARMER'S NARROW ESCAPE, Per Press Association. >Palmerston N.,August 2. A Loneburn settler, Mr R. D, - Knight, driving home from Palmerston this evening, was caught at a ;, level crossing by the incoming Wei- ■-! lington train, and with a companion $ was hurled • from the trap •Mr i Knight .was .knocked about," -his shoulder dislocated", and eome ribH ' broken, an* he was dazed, but not : seriously injured His companion , escaped. The gig was smashed, but ■. the horse was not touched. The i

road crosses the line diagonally, and ; there is a clear view the whol«»way of the passage of trains.