FATAL SMASH.
TRAIN STRIKES CAR. TRAGEDY AT ADDINGTON. Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, July 23. David Williamson, aged 62, a dairyfarmer of Halswcll, was killed when the car he was driving was struck by a Litlo River train on the Clarence Road crossing, Addington, at 4 o’clock this afternoon. The car was smashed almost to scrap metal. There were no other occupants of the car. Air Williamson, it is stated, stopped before going on to the crossing, on which there are four tracks. He then went on to the line and the car was struck by the engine of the train, which carried it along and wedged it against a signal-box beside the line. “Mr Williamson died 36 minutes after the accident. His injuries were a fracture of both arms, the loss of an eye, and a gash on the side of his face. He drove his car over this crossing every day.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 200, 24 July 1936, Page 7
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