MOTOR-CAR HURLED INTO FENCE

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 122, 16 February 1935, Page 9

MOTOR-CAR HURLED INTO FENCE

Four People Injured COLLISION WITH ENGINE AT CROSSING By Telegraph.—rress Association. Auckland, February 15. Four people were injured, three of them seriously, when a motor-car in which they were returning from Pukekohe to Auckland came into collision with the locomotive •of the WaiukuPaerata train at the Pukekohe Road level crossing this afternoon. The victoms were: Ernest Cleave, aged 47, of Green Lane, concussion ; condition serious. Mrs. Dorothy Cleave, wife of Mr. Cleave, concussion: condition serious. Miss Joyce Cleave, daughter of Mr. 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 the middle of the engine. The car was burled into the fence which marks the boundary of the cattle stops and turned completely over. The bood was crumpled, the windscreen shattered and the bodywork extensively damaged. The fence was levelled to the ground. Mr. Rowe was able to extricate himself from the vehicle, aild he was helping the two women when he collapsed.

The crew of the train, with the help of passengers and passers-by, righted the car and extricated the occupants, who were brought to the Auckland Hospital.