ACCIDENTS

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21400, 16 February 1935, Page 11

ACCIDENTS

❖ . ; FOUR PERSONS INJURED MOTOR-CAR COLLIDES WITH TRAIN ■ 3-KESS ASSOCIATION' TELEORAM.I AUCKLAND, February 15. Four persons were injured, three of them seriously, when a motor-car in which they were returning from Pultekohe to Auckland came into collision with a locomotive of the Wai-uku-Paerata train at the Pukekohe road level crossing this afternoon. The victims were:— Ernest Cleave, aged 47, of Green Lane, concussion; condition serious. Mrs Dorothy Cleave, wife of Cleave, concussion; condition serious. Miss Joyce Cleave, daughter of Cleave, aged 19, concussion; condition serious. Walter Rowe, of Remuera, injury to pelvis; condition not serious. Heavy rain was falling at the time the accident occurred. When the car was nearly at the crossing, it swerved sharply to the right, but the left side came into contact with i,he middle of the engine. The car was hurled into the fence which marks the boundary of the cattle stops, and turned completely over. The hood was crumpled, the windscreen shattered, and the bodywork extensively damaged. The fence was levelled. Rowe was able to extricate tvmsolf frorri the car, and he was helping the two women when he collapsed. The crew of the train, with the help of passengers and passers-by, righted '.hp car and extricated the occupants, who were brought to the Auckland Hospital.