TRUCK JUMPS THE RAILS.
VICTORIAN RAILWAY ACCIDENT.
SIXTEEN PERSONS INJURED
rUNITED PEESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT.]
MELBOURNE, Sept. 26. The train was a mixed one. The accident was caused by a truck jumping the rails. It travelled two hundred vards before the coupling broke. The truck left the line, dragging another with- it over the embankment. The following truck and two passenger cars continued until they struck the bridge. A truck and a passenger car containing eighteen passengers toppled over, falling from a height of 30ft into a gully. The body of the car left the under carriage and the top dropping off the passengers were thrown clean out. Had the heavy under-carriage fallen with the car the conseqiienoes would have been much more serious. _ . Sixteen persons were injured, the most serious being a broken arm, cuts, and bruises. •
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3333, 27 September 1911, Page 5
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137TRUCK JUMPS THE RAILS. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3333, 27 September 1911, Page 5
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