THE ENGINE STALLED.

Thames Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 17763, 10 December 1929, Page 5

THE ENGINE STALLED.

WHEN CAR WAS ON LINE. NO ONE INJURED. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Dec. 10. Unusual good fortune was experienced by two young women and a man -whose car was stranded across the Railway line at the Petone crossing on afternoon. It was about 6 when approaching traffic was <■■ 'ned by the wig-wag and bells, and the engine whistle that a train was ycTmingJrom the Petone station. Traffic , /^stopped. One car proceeding south was just clear of, and with its back to the line. Another car, brand new, driven by a young lady, stopped behind it fairly across the*'line. There was time to liave reversed; "but this the driver failed -to do. A man who was sitting in the back seat of the car jumped out .and ran toward the train as if to warn it. The lady who was driving got out and her companion, another young lady, fn the front seat, sat tight. The train advanced slowing down, pushed the car to one side and stopped a few yards further on. The car remained on its wheels and although rather battered about the running "board, apparently suffered no great -damage. The young lady who kept her ■seat was unhurt.