NEAR TRAGEDY
TRAIN JOLTS CAR WOMAN DRIVER’S ORDEAL HUSBAND’S TERRIFIED PART (Special to Times) NEW PLYMOUTH, Thursday. So close to tragedy was the driver of a motor-car at the Waipuku levelcrossing this afternoon that the Wanganui-New Plymouth train removed the crank handle and front bumper, and successive carriages jolted the car as they passed it. The car, driven by a woman, who had her small son with her, was almost on the rails when she sew the train approaching, and frantically she succedeed in stopping just short of the line. Her husband was on the other side of the track several yards away. As the locomotive flashed across his view of his wife and hid the car from his sight he heard the initial crash and each successive impact of the carriages. The train, which was travelling fast to make up time, pulled up rapidly, but nobody was hurt. The car was badly strained and the chassis had to be straightened.
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Waikato Times, Volume 126, Issue 21034, 9 February 1940, Page 2
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