FATAL CROSSING SMASH
TRUCK RUNS INTO TRAIN.
MAN DIES IN HOSPITAL.
YOUTH SERIOUSLY INJURED.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
TIMARU, Monday
Horace William Westaway, aged 24, a married man residing at Mil ford, was fatally injured, and John McAuliffe, aged 19, also of Milford, is in hospital 111 a serious condition, as the result of an accident at the Winchester railway crossing, 15 miles north of Timaru, soon after 11 a.m. to-day. The two men were in a motor truck, which y,'as driven by McAuliffe, who 'pparently did not see or hear the approach of the Christchurch-Dunedin express. McAuliffe drove into the crossing, and the truck struck the engine of the train. It was hurled against a telegraph pole and completely wrecked. The men, who were obviously seriously injured,' were taken to the Timaru Hospital, where Westaway died late in the afternoon. The condition i>f the youth McAuliffe, who is suffering'pom a fracture of the skull and abdominal injuries, is serious.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 304, 24 December 1929, Page 10
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