DOUBLE FATALITY AT CROSSING
Express And Car Collide (By Telegraph—Press Association.) ASHBURTON, February 4. A shocking double fatality occurred at the Fairfield railway crossing when the south-bound express, travelling at high sjieed, crashed into a two-seater motor-car. The car was enttrngied in the cowcatcher and carried for a quarter of a mile, its engine dropping out and lodging on the step of the third carriage. The driver of the car, John McDonald, farmer, aged about 55, Setrfield, ivas carried the full distance in the wreckage. His companion, Mrs. McDonald. was thrown out. and cut to pieces by the train, so that actual identification was impossible. Mr. McDonald leaves three sons, one of whom is in camp at Papakura.
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Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 112, 5 February 1941, Page 12
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118DOUBLE FATALITY AT CROSSING Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 112, 5 February 1941, Page 12
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