Level-Crossing Smash.
LOBBY AND TBAIN COLLIDE,
DRIVER SEVERELY INJURED. (By Telegraph.—Press Association;. AUCKLAND, March 17. An injury, probably involving the amputation of a foot, was sustained by a lorry driver, James Watts, at a level-crossing accident at Avondale. The lorry was being driven slowly from the brickworks adjacent to the railway. An eye-witness said it seemed impossible that the injured man could have seen the train approaching. The lorry was travelling at less than walking pace between the brickworks’ gate and the second set of rails about 15yds away.
The impact was sufficient to force the heavy vehicle to turn a complete circle. The front portion of the engine and the cab were completely wrecked. Watts, with one foot practically Lvvered, was taken to hospital in an ambulance. No one else was injured.
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Thames Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 19661, 17 March 1936, Page 3
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