HEAVY TRAINS COLLIDE
T W ENT V- SIC VEN I>ER SO NS INJURED By Telegraph—Press Assn* —Copyright. Melbourne, Dec. 26. Twenty-seven persons were injured when a heavy goods train crashed head on into a passenger train at Tooradiu stationlast night. Only two of those injured are serious cases, The passenger train would probably have been badly wrecked had its engine not absorbed most of the. crash. The goods train was travelling at 25 miles per hour when the collision occurred. The assistant stationmaster made frantic -efforts to stop the oncoming goods train by waving a lantern, but lie was top late,
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Taranaki Daily News, 27 December 1929, Page 9
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