CAR OVER BANK

Grey River Argus, 5 December 1938, Page 7

CAR OVER BANK

Passenger Killed THREE CHILDREN ESCAPE. AUCKLAND, December 4. A single man, Adrian Oswald Alison, aged 20, of Helensville, was fatally injured, when a motor-car in which he was a passenger, crashed over a low bank just beyond the Mount Rex railway station, on the Helensville-Kaukapakapa main highway. The driver of the car, Len Gray, of Helensville, suffered a broken collar bone, and was taken to a private hospital in Helensville. Allison was taken to hospital with extensive injuries to the chest and broken ribs. He died about two hours after the accident. An ambulance was called from Auckland, but the man was too severely injured 'to be brought to the city.

Before the crash, the car struck a series of pot-holes in the road, and got out of control. It swerved to both sides of. the road, and then careered over the bank, landing with its wheels uppermost. Three young children who were also in the car were affected by shock, but were not injured.

SALT LAKE CITY, ’ December 2. Chance circumstances saved a number of children from being on the bus which collided with a fast goods train during a snowstorm - yesterday. Twenty-six students were killed and a number injured. One stayed home because of toothache, but his brother was killed. A girl whose home is on the opposite side of the track was awaiting the bus, and saw it hit by the train. The dead include the driver of the bus.. Railway officials said that the train was an hour behind schedule, due to the weather, and was travelling fast, probably in excess of sixty miles an

hour. It appears that the engineer was on the right side of the driver’s cab in the locomotive, and the bus came from the left. The lireman screamed to him. An entire floor of the hospital was filled with crash victims, and attaches had to use a special room for parents who fainted. ■ . ... Physicians declared that many of the injured would be maimed for life Others are expected to die. It is impossible to identify the broken bodies of many dead. . '. Officials are checking homes in the area to determine the exact casualty list. When news of the tragedy reached the high school, many children had to be forced into the buses to make the trip home, and several dirivers at first refused to leave.