MAGGED BY TRAIN

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 638, 15 April 1929, Page 14

MAGGED BY TRAIN

WOMAN FALLS FROM CARRIAGE

BABY’S NARROW ESCAPE

(From Our Own Correspondent) WHANG AREI, Sunday. A 12-months-old baby and its mother, Mrs. D. Rice, aged 19 years, had a remarkable escape from death at the Mair railway station last evening.

Mrs. Rice, who lives at Park Avenue, Whangarei, was preparing to alight from the train at Mair Station, when the train apparently gave a suddeu jerk, with the result that the woman, who was ou the carriage platform, and was handicapped by a baby in one arm and parcels in the other, was thrown between the platform and the train. As the train was still in motion. Mrs. Rice was dragged along: the line for some distance and suffered a severe fracture of the thigh. The year-old baby was thrown under the train and which the train was moving. Miraculanded between the tw'o rails along lously it escaped injury, and was unharmed beyond a shaking. The Whangarei Ambulance Brigade quickly rendered first-aid, and conveyed Mrs. Rice to the Whangarei Hospital. She is progressing as favourably as can be expected.