WEEDONS SMASH.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19508, 3 January 1929, Page 9

WEEDONS SMASH.

AMENDED LIST OF NAMES*

INQUEST OPINED. JjA The corrected list of nimti oI (km injured in the Weedona crossing aatash on Monday is as under • Phyllis I i*en« Benson, aged 11, wh® died An ho jr after tha accident. Mru Rita I)® Latour, njed 26 years, residing am- of Mr Feno, Oranjre Hill. tin Cm«, who received cut* on Iwr hciul. Joseph ma l>« Latour, uged 4 MUi, rare of Mr Fcnn, Oavo, who has a wmpound fracture of thf left hip and is suffering Irom cut* and shock. Bertrand Aubray Do Lutour, aged 27 J oars, »b»op-&tation hand, Elisabeth M.rect, Timr.ru. who ha* sevtra faoa and l> xlv injuries. Ngiiira Uenion, aged 11 yearn, alios® address it AI bury. via Tiroaru, suffering from injuries to tha legs, Traror Heumn De Latour, a ha by of four month#, who is in hospital, but baa only minor injuries. Lsofn De Latour, a baby of 4 months, who is not in hospital, and escaped with cuts and bruiaas. The p.irty from Albury consisted of Mr ami Mrs Do Latour and their thre# child ran, together with Phyllis and Nguirn Benson in the car that was smashed, and Sidney Hanson and Bay o*l Latour. who had just changed oars, in the scorn! cor. Mr and Mn L. O. Bellette. of flic*, carton, met th« two oars at RoUaaton at 5.30. Mr# Ballatta took the lead. Tha De La tour's *ar cam® second and Mr S. Benson's oar third. Just Mom the W«*dons crossing Mr Da Latour* car gradually eame up to flrvt place. It tttma likely that Mr Da Latour was unaware of tha railway crossing, *a the Bellettes' oar, which he waa passing, would ba betwacn him and the usual crossing notice. Mr Bellette waa of tha opinion that Mr Do Latour waa just too far ahaad to atop, and not quit# olaaa enough to acoelerate, and past tha train. Ha probably acocleratad and applied tha brnkas at the sama time. Tha hospital reported tha condition of the patients last night at fcdlows: Josephine Da I*tonr, itnproriiiß; tha baby, Treror Da Latonr. about tha an ma; Mrs De Latonr, improTinti Neaira Benson. imwrnTing slowly; Mr Da Latour, iiwprorinn. Tha Inqnaat. Tha inquest on Phyllis Irene Baaaon tha victim of tha crossing smaah oo Monday afternoon, was opanad day before tha Coroner, Mr H. P. Lowry. Leonard Owan Bellatte, P.W.D. eiiw ployee, of 52 Totara road, Mcoarton, who found tha body, Identified it aa that of his i.ister-in-law, a (ted 13 year*. Tha inquest waa then adjourned sirte die.