WOMAN KILLED

Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23053, 22 June 1940, Page 12

WOMAN KILLED

CAR COLLIDES WITH TRAIN ACCIDENT ON WAIMATE LINE [From Our Own Reporter.] WAIMATE, June 21. When the car in which she was travelling collided with a train on the Waimate branch line at 5.10 this afternoon, Mrs Helen Dellow, a widow, of Tinwald, received head injuries from which she died almost immediately. Three other occupants of the car suffered minor injuries and shock. Because of the heavy fog, visibility was extremely bad at the time of the accident. The car was travelling towards Timaru when it was the tender of the engine, which was travelling tender foremost on the Main South road crossing near Studholme Junction. Mrs Dellow was sitting on the back seat, on the side on which the impact was received. The driver of the car was Mr David Maider, of Dunedin. The other passengers were Mr John Harrison, of Dunedin, and Mr S. Cameron, of Oamaru, who were taken to the Waimate Public Hospital. The car, a large sedan, was extensively damaged. CYCLIST’S DEATH COLLISION WITH CAR (TRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) PALMERSTON N., June 21. Sidney Arthur Harvey, of Palmerston North, a labourer, aged 53, a married man with one son, died two hours after his cycle collided with a car at a city intersection. The driver of the car was Leonard William Paton McDonald, of Palmerston North, aged 21, a sheep-farm hand. Both men were going to work when the accident happened. INJURY TO LEFT EYE B. F. Cunningham, aged 36, of 6 Head street, Sumner, suffered injuries to his left eye when he was struck by a rivet while working at the Dominion Yeast Company’s premises shortly after 5 p.m. yesterday. He was admitted to the Christchurch Public Hospital, where his condition is reported to be satisfactory. WOMAN’S LEG FRACTURED Mrs J. Foster, aged 36, of 22 Seddon street, Beckenham, suffered a fracture of a leg in a fall at her home yesterday afternoon. Her condition at the Christchurch Hospital last evening was given as satisfactory.