MOTOR ACCIDENT.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 1 July 1924, Page 7

MOTOR ACCIDENT.

FIVE PEOPLE INJURED, (BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION.) . ASHBURTON, June 30. • A serious accident' occurred .at Ashburton at a level crossing at 7 o’clock on Saturday night, when a motor car occupied by five residents of Ashburton crashed into a train from Christchurch. The occupants were removed to hospital. They were Charles Ward; carrier, fractured pelvis, fracture at the base of the skull; and abrasions, condition serious; I. Fallwell, court bailiff, a married man, lacerated head; J. Cossgrove, boot, salesman, single, lacerated ear; H. Davis, upholsterer; married, wounds in tjie head ; George Melville, apprentice, aged 16 years, internal haemorrhage,, a deep cut in the thigh, wound in the head, and two fingers of the left hand crushed, his condition being dangerous. The party was returning from a foot-ball-match at Methven, the car being driven by the owner, Mr Cossgrove. They proceeded on to. the crossing near the station yards at the same time as the train, which they apparently did not see, .was. approaching, lhe train driver had given the usual warnings, but seeing that the car intended to come on applied the emergency brakes. It was too late to avert hr accident, and the car hit the train the fourth vyaggon from the engine, and was reduced to. a mass of wreckage. The axle box of the waggon was smashed. Mr Melville, who was working at Methven, was getting a lift home for the week-end. He was thrown on to the eattlestops. Fallwell, Davis, and Cossgrove have been discharged from the hosnital.