A CROSSING SMASH
ELDERLY LADY KILLED,
(By Telegiaph.—Press Association.)
GREYMOUTH, 12th September.
A fatal accident occurred at 6.42 p.m. on. Saturday at the Spring Creek railway crossing, near Kamaka, when a train coming from Blackball to Greymouth struck a car in which three women wore proceeding homo to Blackball. Miss Margaret Wolstenholme was alono in the front seat, driving, and her mother, Mrs. Mary Ann Wolstenholme, aged 03, and Mrs. Caldwell were in the rear seat.
Tho engino whistled just before it struck the car, and Miss Wolstenholme and Mrs. Caldwell were thrown forward, but Mrs. Wolstenholmo was found beneath a mudguard, with injuries to her hoad from which sho died in tho train on tho way to the hospital. Mrs. Caldwell had a wrist and a shoulder broken, and was taken to tho hospital in a serious condition. Miss Wolstenholme escaped with bruises and shock. The crossing is a very dangerous one.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 64, 13 September 1926, Page 9
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153A CROSSING SMASH Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 64, 13 September 1926, Page 9
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