CRASH ON LEVEL CROSSING
MOTOR-LGRRY THAT STALLED.
TWO OCCUPANTS IN HOSPITAL.
By Telegraph.—Press Association. Palmerston N., April 18. A mixed train proceeding to Woodville at a quarter past el'even this morning struck a motor-lorry, which stalled °on the line at Victoria Avenue crossing. Mr. Leonard Simmonds, driver of the lorry, and Mr. C. N. Clausen, a borough councillor, are in hospital, the former with a broken arm and the latter with touts and bruises. The other passengers, Mrs. Simmonds, Mr. and Mrs. Jessup and Miss Moana Clausen, escaped unhurt. ■ The train was 100 yards away when the lorry stalled, and the engine-driver sounded a warning whistle. The-train jvas travelling very slowly when the crash occurred, otherwise fliei' accident would have beqn more seribusi The lorry was< daina'ged• considerably. ■ :
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Taranaki Daily News, 21 April 1930, Page 12
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