DEADLY LEVEL CROSSINGS.
FATALITIES IN FRANCE. NOTED CYCLIST KILLED. PARTY OF MOTORISTS RUN DO^YN. Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn. PARIS, May 22. There were two accidents" at level crossings on Monday. In, the flrst a motor-car at Amiens, containing four people, disregarding the shouls of a party of boys perched on a railway bridge, attempted to cross the line in front of an express train, which crashed into it, sweeping the car along for 100 yards. All the occupants were killed. The second accident occurred at Nice. During a cycling race Rolfo, a crack cyclist, saw a level crossing gate about to close. He sprinted and got through alone out of the 30 competitors. While crossing the line the chain of his bicycle snapped, and Rolfo fell and was killed by the train.
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Waikato Times, Volume 97, Issue 15245, 23 May 1923, Page 5
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