ROAD HORROR.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 151, 29 June 1931, Page 7

ROAD HORROR.

MIDNIGHT TRAGEDY. Students and Girls Parish in Blazing Car. PYJAMA PARTY SEQUEL. (United P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 2 p.m.); LONDON , , June 28. "I was awakened by a terrific crash after midnight. I dashed to the ■window and saw a glare lighting the whole district. Two blazing motor ears were locked, head on, and there were little black figures in a roaring furnace." So says an eye-witness of a collision at Watford by-pass road, Elstree, in which four were burned and four injured. The cars were a baby saloon containing two medical students and two girls, all of whom are dead, and a touring car in which three pyjama-clad girls and two male Japanese- were returning from a pyjama party. Pour of them were seriously hurt. One Japanese escaped. Eye-witnesses heard screams from the suffering people imprisoned in the saloon ear. Blazing petrol covered the roadway. Sybil Dixon leaned out of the window of the car shouting, "Let me out, I am burning to death." Gomei, a Japanese, rushed to open the door but the flames beat him back and he was badly burned. The driver and conductor of a passing bus wrenched off the door and pulled out Miss Dixon, who died in hospital. A man wae crouched at the steering wheel apparently already dead. Miss Dixon's clothes were burned off. She rolled on the roadway crying, "Oh mother, I am dying." The bus driver turned his fire extinguisher on a man who was staggering around with hie" clothes ablaze but he collapsed and died.