DANGEROUS CROSSING.
MOTORIST'S NARROW ESCAPE,
[By Telegraph—Press Association.]
XAPIER, Monday,
Tliore was a narrow escape fram a. very serious accident at the gasworks railway crossing ns the first train wr.s arriving this morning from Hastings. A taxi-driver, named John Black, got his car right on to the metals before lie, observed that the train was upon hint. He made a desperate effprt to swerve off, but the engine caught the rear wheel and carried the car into the cattle stops, completely wrecking it. Black was thrown with considerable force some distance out, and escaped with ;i severe cut on the head.
The crossing is a Aery dangerous one, several fatalities having occurred there, and the Government has been j eatedly urged to iiistal an alarm.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 11934, 23 March 1914, Page 4
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