LEVEL CROSSING SMASH.
TWO MEN DIE OF INJURIES,
(BY TELEGRAPH*"PRESS ASSOCIATION.)
WHANGAREI, July 18
George Rumble, a resident of Kamo, aged about 22, at 6.40 o’clock; this morning backed a car from a garage adjacent to the Ruatangata railway crossing on the line. The northbound goods train crashed into the car, which wa,s smashed to atoms. Rumble sustained terrible injuries and (Succumbed in the Whangarei Hospital two hours later. George Tliorburn. also of Kamo, and of a similar age, who was accompanying Rumble, sustained a fractured skull and other severe injuries,, and he also expired later in the morning.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 18 July 1927, Page 9
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99LEVEL CROSSING SMASH. Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 18 July 1927, Page 9
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