TRAIN STRIKES CAR.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19419, 30 August 1926, Page 8

TRAIN STRIKES CAR.

LEVEL CROSSING ACCIDENT. WOMAN FATALLY INJURED. OTHER PASSENGERS HURT. [BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] MARTON, Saturday. A distressing level crossing accident, resulting in a woman being killed and three other persons more or less seriously injured, occurred at the Greatford station, four miles from Marton, at 6.30 last evening, when the Wanganui-Palmerston North mixed train ran into a five-seater motorcar driven by Mr. Leonard Weston s a well-known Mangaweka resident. Mr. Weston was accompanied by his daughter Beatrice, aged 7, his sister-in-law, Mrs. Jurgens, of Taihape, and Bertie Jurgens, aged 7. The party were returning from Palmerston. North after having conveyed Mrs. Weston to an hospital there. It is stated that,' on approaching the crossing, Mr. Weston kept a good look out, especially toward the station, but when he reached the rails he found the train almost upon them. He made frantic efforts to get the car off the track, but it was too late to avoid a crash, which threw the car occupants to the roadway. The car was borne along to the cattle stop, where it was deposited—a mass of wreckage. It was found that Mrs. Jurgens and her son Bertie were-most seriously hurt. They were admitted to hospital, where .Mrs. Jurgens'died at 11 p.m. The others suffered from injuries and shock.