FATAL COLLISION.
MRS McLEAN KILLED
[VER TKESS ASSOCIATION.]
Marton, August 18. A fatal collision occurred this afternoon at the Pukepapa road railway crossing at Marton, between a motor car and a good's train. Douglas McLean, a youth of 18 years, was driving his mother and sister homo, with the side curtains down and with the hood up. Ho approached the railway line without noticing a train engine, which struck the car, wrecking it completely and throwing the occupants out.
Mrs Donald McLean, a well respected resident, of the R.angitikei district and tho widow of the late Mr Donald McLean," was instantaneously killed.
The driver sustained a broken jaw and severe shock, and is .in a semiconscious slate.
Miss McLean escaped without injury.
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Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 302, 19 August 1916, Page 2
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