ACCIDENTS

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22464, 27 July 1938, Page 12

ACCIDENTS

CAR STRUCK BY TRAIN AUCKLAND MERCHANT SERIOUSLY INJURED ASSOCIATION TELSGBAXj AUCKLAND, July 31 A well-known timber merchant Charles Henry Frankham, aged 67. e< Herne Bay, was admitted to hospital with serious head injuries after a crossing accident shortly After W o’clock last night, his heavy sedan motor-car being struck by the engine of a suburban train at level crossing, Mount Eden. The car was dragged along the track for about 75 yards, before coming to rest across the permanent way. . Frankham was driving alone m the car. He was directly on the crowing near the boundary of the Auckland gaol when struck by an engma going from Henderson to Auckland. S The force of the collision crushed and buckled the car on the left side. The battered vehicle was swept down the track on the fender of teejmgajfe With his head cut severeiy by gte* from a broken window. Frankham was taken to hospital by ».StJdto ambulance. His condition to-day is reported as serious. MINER KILLED AT OHAI 1 (VSEBS ASSOCIATION XKLNONAK.) INVERCARGILL July 26. John Humphries, aged 53. a man employed in the Star mine at Ohai was killed, apparently by a fall of stone, shortly before- noon.