LEVEL CROSSINGS.
TRAIN STRIKES LORRY.
Per Press Association
INVERCARGILL, Sept. 10. A good trains coming into Invercargill this evening struck a motor lorry at the Cemetery Road crossing. Two men were on the lorry and one, John Crooks, of Tramway Road, was killed instantly. His comapnion, Mr White, was seriously injured and was removed to hospital.
SMASH AT AUCKLAND
Per Press Association
AUCKLAND, Sept. 10. A goods train collided with a light motor van at the crossing near Glen Eden station this afternoon. The van was wrecked and R. L. Woods, the driver of the van, received abrasions to the forehead and injured his thigh. His companion, a schoolboy, Alfred Ipsen, aged 12, received a wound on the temple and a severely lacerated left leg. Both were sent to the Auckland Hospital and their condition is satisfactory.
The train was travelling slowly and it is stated that the warning whistle was sounded. A motor car crossed the line just in front of the van. The latter was caught broadside on and almost smashed to matchwood.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 242, 11 September 1929, Page 7
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175LEVEL CROSSINGS. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 242, 11 September 1929, Page 7
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