ACCIDENTS

Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23110, 28 August 1940, Page 10

ACCIDENTS

CAR STRUCK BY TRAIN MOTHER AND CHILDREN INJURED (CRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) AUCKLAND, August 27. Five persons, four of them young children, were injured when the , motor-car in which they were travel- j ling was struck by the engine of the i Auckland-Swanson train on a level 1 crossing. The victims were Mrs Eva Agnes ( Cryer. aged 31, married, of Glen Eden, her three daughters, Nola Eva, aged nine, June Valerie, aged eight, and Rae, aged five, and Fay Featherston, aged nine, a daughter of Mr W Featherston, of Glen Eden. The car was struck on the left-hand door and carried 80 feet beyond the crossing before it was thrown clear. It was damaged beyond repair. The train was stopped in its own length. All suffered head injuries and concussion. The condition of Rae Cryer and Fay Featherston was serious to-night. CYCLIST INJURED Percy George Boulton, of 20 Dudley street, suffered leg injuries when he was knocked off his bicycle by a motor-car at the corner of Riccarton r iad and Rattray street shortly after 7 o’clock last evening. Boulton was admitted to hospital, but his condition is not serious. KNOCKED FROM MOTOR-CYCLE Flung through a plate glass window when his motor-cycle was struck by a truck in Colombo street, Sydenham, about 6.20 last evening, R. Simpson, 43 Swann’s road, suffered injuries to the left arm. He was admitted to the Christchurch Public Hospital, where he was reported to ire in a satisfactory condition.