CAR SMASHED ON LEVEL CROSSING
Dairy Farmer Killed
VEHICLE WEDGED AGAINST SIGNAL BOX Bv Telegraph—Press Association. Christchurch, July 23. David Williamson, aged 62, a dairyfarmer of Halswell, was killed when the car he was driving was struck by a Little River train on the Clarence ■ Road crossing, Addington, at 4 o’clock this afternoon. The car was smashed' almost to scrap metal. There were no other occupants of the car. Mr Williamson, it is stated, stopped before going on to the crossing, on which there are four, tracks. He then went on to the liine and the car was struck by the engine of the train, which carried it along and wedged it against a signal-box beside the line. Mr. Williamson died 35 minutes after the accident. His injuries were a fracture of both arms, the loss of an eye, and a gash on the side of his face. He drove bis car over this crossing every day.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 255, 24 July 1936, Page 12
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