CROSSING COLLISION
WOMAN'S THIGH FRACTURED HUSBAND ESCAPES LIGHTLY [by TELEGRAPH —OWN correspondent] HAMILTON, ThursdayA collision occurred between an Auckland-bound train and a motor-car driven by Mr. John Prendergast, a retired farmer, of Ngaruawahia, on the old Taupiri Road crossing, just north of the Ngarpawahia railway bridge, this ovening. Mr. Prendergast escaped with a few abrasions, but his wife, Mrs. Mary Prendergast, aged 52, received a fractured thigh. She was taken to the Waikato Hospital in a St. John ambulanco. The car was extensively damaged.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23162, 7 October 1938, Page 10
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84CROSSING COLLISION New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23162, 7 October 1938, Page 10
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