CROSSING SMASH

Hokitika Guardian, 22 May 1933, Page 5

CROSSING SMASH

FOUR KILLED

CAR COLLIDES WITH TRAIN.

(Per Press Assimilation Copyright.)

WELLINGTON, May 22. . Four persons were killed and three seriously injured, when , a motor car collided with a, train at Porirua railway crossing at six last evening. The 'impact threw the .car 'on, to the engine of a stationarytrairi'.'[on yvthe .next sot of rails. The victims are:—

Killed:. Mrs Lincoln and her four-year-old daughter, of Rangitikei line, Palmerston North. Mrs Frances Lena Gaskin, of ' Burke Street, Palmerston North, (a daughter of V. Morlais, of Ekfttahuna). Miss Enright, who boarded with Mrs Gaskin. ■ ' - ■ •

The Injured. . Frank Lincoln; 26, (address given as . c/o Q. Gray, 171 Main Street, Palmerston North), compound fracture of ribs, bead injury ,4,n)d .shock.

Frances 'Lincoln* aged three;--younger daughter of Mr. and Amp Lincoln, injuries to head and-"hiP s> '. • Eric Holroyd, 23; of -Jifncllmrst Road, Palmeyston I^ortli..{. .. . • • Hid pccupatity of f-Jid car were return-

ing home at Porirua just' before> 6 o’clock. The ni otor car pi'dceedbdt£ to ydo"oyery. the crossing to pass Hp ;front of a stationary .train,- buT had nob pap sed -ever the first set of rails- wdieii if WAs.''strpck-b> the engine of the Otaki to Wellington train. . . f :jl .iL- ■>.(.-

The body of the car - have been torn from - th©' cbassisy :i . : for the chassis and wheels, smashed .to pieces were found against the. stationary engine, while portions pf the 'hood and! body were -strewn along the . rails and between the of the moving train. The three _ women, and the child v Q ro jpstnntlv^hiUed, 'Mrs .Lipenln and tfrg Gaskin, after!being thrown from the 3»r t were apparently r’n over by the irpin an r j : tehribtr iiShtilate^.u ; Miss Enright; yas:,thrown pn.to the engine-of .trhjmV together with Lincohi and_Holroyd. : Thebbtfy of .the tildey child was picked up in. the, si^rfoot;way,; wljilethe in- j jurhd child: wa| T father. /.. . | ! Messages were immediately despatch- . ,i ed for.doctors and.. ambulances and f shortly Uftpr ; wa|ds,ifche|iniu red were at- >-| .tended by Doctors ' Mar- *■ shall of Dprirua.; and Dr. Brown of Wellington. - ’ Later they were conveyed to Wellington Hospital by anihukjtneei i ■ : . . v f'i.!ft' dowii train saidthif ed-oft’ -ithr:stnfroiiit?| ; : : a; second /carj»iage : iii d v hi c b : he was riding;. -As soonjaag thi^rai : *jT he ran; habit to tho ,'|fgJ| t l o X X traiif; T}iie anil-■ eWtjsiji werpTying near it and. tbp otlier portions, of the wreckage were.!’jill ovcSr-i-fhe line. He nHSißted‘>to_lift;the.Wrfecjfcage i)i .response tp a-callir !kji|(rd for , .volunteers, add; the, bbcfias ' were > rexnovea to the side of the f"a‘ck. Part of the. hood of the (hr was' fouhd between two of the carriage. . He aiso went to the Mental Hospj tal !fi>f ' met - the niedical,men just .mi the way. : An eye-witness‘.who was standing at the door of the ' waiting shed watching the train approaching, said the Incoming train)Which.-was, blowing its whistle, apparently caught; file car towards the rear portion arid hurled if on to tlje stationary train-: ''/smashing it to 3 matchwood. V-- ! The condition of Frank; Lincoln* and A Erances Lincoln, is j-cported’to be ser- % ions, while that of Harry Holroyd is ; ' a little better.. . ~ f :