and refill. While it was away, the goods train entered the same section of track and struck the rear of the troop train. Only the fact that many troops were lying down saved them from serious injury and decapitation, as the tops of several carriages were shorn off in the impact. Port Germein, 1947 On 10 October 1947, five people killed. The five men, all of[sic] Whyalla, were killed instantly and another critically injured when the motor buck-board in which they were travelling from Port Pirie to Whyalla was wrecked by a mixed train at a railway crossing on the Port Pirie-Port Augusta road, about a quarter of a mile from Port Germein. The train, which was travelling from Port Augusta to Port Pirie, struck the buckboard with great force, smashing it to pieces and hurling the occupants many yards along the line. Cavan, 1948 On 19 December 1948, five people killed when a railway engine and tender hit a tourer car broadside. The dead included a woman (wife of the driver), their three daughters and another relative. Paratoo, 1960 On 27 December 1960 the driver of the Broken Hill Express was killed in a derailment caused by buckled rails. Middleton, 1966 On 10 October 1966, five people killed. A memorial was subsequently set up on the coastal road between Noarlunga and Moana, 'To the five surfers G. TOMS J. REORDAN M. LAVER G. RODDA J. MARTIN tragically killed 10 Oct 1966 Middleton level crossing. Remembered by their friends.' Wasleys Crossing (Gawler), 1970 On 12 April 1970, 17 people killed and forty-five injured when A double-decker bus crashed into the side of a two-carriage 'Bluebird' passenger train at Wasleys Crossing, near Gawler. Direk, 1988 On 8 February 1988 1 Female Passenger and Driver were killed when the BuddCar collided with a Semi Trailer. The driver and a passenger was killed in after a level crossing accident at Heaslip Road at Direk it was never repaired and was scrapped in the end so that only two remained then. The one at the NRM at Port Adelaide CB1 was the other car running with CB3 at the time and the dents can still be seen now in that car on one end of it. The other side of the car in the photo had a gash in it that went about half way through the car somewhere near the radiator area. The