LEVEL CROSSING TRAGEDY.

Grey River Argus, 3 September 1927, Page 5

LEVEL CROSSING TRAGEDY.

Motorist Killed. CAR MANGLED TO SCRAP IRON. PALMERSTON NORTH, Sept. 2. A tragdey occurred at the Ilest St. this afternoon, when a five-se.ater car, driven by Owen Sandilands Fryerman, contractor, 63 years of age, of Palmerston North, collided with a mixed train from Wellington. Fryerman was killed instantaneously. The car was mangled into a useless heap of ironwork. Deceased had a clear view of the line, and the engine •driver sounded a long blast fifty yards .from the crossing. The tragedy is in explicable. Deceased leaves a widow and children-. AMERICAN’S BLUNDERS WITH A CAR. AUCKLAND, Sept. 2. , As the sequel to a motor-car smash, 1 at Takanini, Louis William Young, aged 26, a stage artist, driver of the car, was fined five pounds for converting it to his own use, nad 0110 pound for driving without a license. Accused had an American license, and thought it applicable to the Dominion. Th? car was valued at six hundred pounds, and the damage was estimated at three hundred.