SIX PEOPLE KILLED.

Auckland Star, Issue 291, 9 December 1925, Page 7

SIX PEOPLE KILLED.

MANY OTHERS INJURED. LEVEL CROSSING CRASH. TRAIN AND CHAR-A-BANC. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) LONDON, December 8. A shocking accident occurred at a railway crossing in Buckinghamshire. A char-a-banc had taken a party of 14 people from Woburn Sands to Bletchley. It was five miles from home on the return trip when it crashed through the railway gates at the crossing and overturned. An express train from Cambridge reached the spot almost simultaneously and dashed into the wreckage. The night was dark, but there was no fog. The roads were slippery under a thaw. Harrowing scenes followed the accident. Lamps were brought from cottages in the vicinity and the injured were extricated with difficulty. They were placed in the guard's van of the colliding train in which doctors rendered first aid on the way to Bedford. Three men and three women were killed. They were mutilated beyond recognition. The police were still searching at midnight for hand-bags and other articles >y means of which the dead might be dentified. The driver of the char-a-banc was eriously injured. A child had a miraculous escape. It ivas picked up on the track within nches of the wheels of the train. — (A. md N.Z. Cable.) IDENTIFICATION DIFFICULT. MANY CRITICALLY HURT. (Received 3 p.m.) LOXDOX, December 8. ■Identification of those killed in the Bletchley char-a-t)anc smash is not yei completed. The "Morning Post" says in most cases :he jewellery or clothing of the victims ifford the only clues, but it is not doubt ;d the dead include the Rev. Mr. Nightngale, the Wesleyan pastor of the Bucktillage, Woburn Sands, and his wife. Six of the injured are in a critical itate.— (Reuter.)