LEVEL CROSSING FATALITY

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 28 August 1926, Page 9

LEVEL CROSSING FATALITY

NEAR GREATFORD STATION

TRAIN CRASHES INTO CAR

(BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION.) MARION, Aug. 28. A distressing level crossing accident, resulting in a woman being killed and three other persons more or less seriously injured, occurred at the Greatford railway station, four miles from Marton, at 6.30 o’clock yesterday evening, "when the Wanganui-Pal-merston North mixed train, ran into a five-sea ter car driven by Leonard Weston, a well-known Mangaweka resident. Mr Weston was accompanied by his daughter Beattie, aged seven; his sister-in-law, Mrs Jurgens, of Taihape; and Bertie Jurgens, aged l seven. The party was returning from Palmerston North, after having conveyed Mrs ’Weston to the hospital there. It was stated that on approaching the crossing Mr Weston kept a good look-out, especially towards the station, but when be reached the rails he- found a train almost upon them from the opposite direction. He made frantic efforts to get off the track, but it was too late to avoid a. crash, which threw the ear and occupants on to the roadway, the car being borne along to the cattle stop, where it was deposited a mass of wreckage. It was found that- Mrs Jurgens and Bertie were seriously hurt and were admtited to hosoital, where the woman died at II o’clock. The others suffered' from injuries and shock.