Show train smashes auto of lost motorists driver mistakes tracks for highway detour NEW BEDFORD EDFORD 13 MASS it was dark as pitch the ram was coming down in torrents but otto of middleboro Midd leboro felt extremely confident take your next left turn to get back on kings highway the man had told him finally he saw an opening in the trees and swung his automobile to the left bumpy isn t it his wife asked look she said a little later A hitchhiker he ile seems terribly excited something must have gone wrong stopped the hitchhiker rain dripping from his hat stuck his head in the car window in two minutes he said the boston to new bedford train goes by here so what said so you re driving along the railroad tracks that s what the man mail said and his wife got out of the car just in time it was demolished moli shed and dragged 35 feet by an old colony railroad train one woman passenger suffered minor cuts from shattered glass as he the engine and two cars were derailed and 50 passengers were shaken |