FELL OFF MOVING TRAIN

Taranaki Daily News, 5 July 1929, Page 13

FELL OFF MOVING TRAIN

WOMAN ESCAPES UNINJURED

ACCIDENT IN THE DARKNESS. ROLLED WELL CLEAR OF WHEELS. (By Wire. —Special to News.) Auckland, Last Night. A fortunate escape from serious ini jury or death was experienced by a woman passenger on the south-bound trunk express at an early hour the other morning when she fell from the moving tram and escaped without a scratch. The express had left Raurimu and was travelling at about 20 miles-an hour before reaching the steeper gradients of Uie spiral which brings the line up to the Waimarino Plains. Two men passengers were standing on the platform of their carriage when they noticed a woman, carrying a cup and saucer, conu from the door of the next carriage. She evidently wished to put tho cup and saucer on the platform wncro they could be easily collected, lhe men took no particular notice until they neard a crash of crockery and saw the woman falling over the steps of the •.-image. The emergency signal was given and the express was stopped. The guard, accompanied by some passengers, walked back along the track to tne scene of the accident, fully expecting to find that the worst had happened They were astonished, however, to distinguish a figure loom out of the daikties! Apparently the woman had fallen well clear of the train and track-bed on co the mud of tho water-table.