FOUR LIVES LOST

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 151, 29 June 1931, Page 9

FOUR LIVES LOST

HEAD-ON MOTOR SMASH

BABY SALOON CAR: ABLAZE

(Received 29th June, 1.30 p.m.)

A ' LONDON, 29th Juae. "AwK&enel by a terrific crash after 'midnight, I dashed to the window and i saw a glare lighting the whole district. Two blazing motor-cars were locked in a head-on collision with little black figures in a roaring furnace," says att oye-witness of a collision on the Watford by-pass road at Elstree. Four porsons were burnt to death and four injured. The ears were a baby saloon, containing two medical students and two girls, all of whom are dead, and a touring ear, in which three pyjamaclad girls with two Japanese men were returning from a pyjama party. Four of this party were seriously hurt. One Japanese .escaped. Eye-witnesses heard tho screams of the suffering people imprisoned in the saloon. Blazing petrol 'covered the roadway. Sybil Dixon leant out of tho window, 6houting: '' Let me out.' I am burning to death." Gomei, a Japanese, rushed to opon the door. Tb> flames beat him back badly burned. Tho driver and conductor, of a passing bus wrenched off the door and pulled out Miss Dixou, who died in .hospital. A man crouched "at the steering wheel was apparently already de, ad. Tho bus driver turned his fire extinguisher on a man staggering around with his clothe* ablaze. The man collapsed and died.