REMARKABLE ESCAPE.
LORRY STRUCK BY TRAIN. DRIVER ONLY SLIGHTLY HURT. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) lIAWERA, Friday. A remarkable escape from possible death was experienced at II o'clock this morning by William Greig, when the brewery motor lorry, he was driving was struck by the engine of an incoming passenger train on the Tawhiti Road level crossing, close to Hawera station. v The cowcatcher caught the rear portion of the lorry, turning it sideways and hurling it over the cattlestop, to crash on its side several yards up the line. Greig was uninjured, except for a slight cut on the face. He crawle’d unaided from. the. wreckage of the lorry cab.
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Waikato Times, Volume 108, Issue 18158, 24 October 1930, Page 8
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