CRASH INTO HOUSE
BLACK-OUT TRAGEDY ; I LOSS OF THREE LIVES EIGHT OTHER CASUALTIES , ... J • i V'•', •: '• I '"]j By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright LONDON, Feb. 25: ; . A Royal Air Force machine after taking off from the Croydon airport while a black-out was in. progress, lost height and struck s„nd tore off v the roof of the home of Mr. and Mrs. R. Bridge. '•••. The pilot who was .the sole occii- > pant of the machine, was killed; Mrs. 1 Bridge and her daughter died in hospital; Mr. Bridge was badly burned; and seven other people . ~ were slightly injured. . When the machine crashed into the ... house its petrol tank exploded, and it • j crashed into the road. There it demolished a motor-car, then hurtled across into two garages,' which a second explosion severely damaged. Firemen hastened to the scene. An armed guard and policemen placed a cordon around the area, > and the debris was examined under a search- r light. The: police removed 'families from ' ■;; eight houses to hotels. ' Charred rubbish chokes the wrecked house, of which only part of the ground floor walls are standing. Houses on both ; sides of the garage are charred.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23591, 27 February 1940, Page 7
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