HURLED INTO FENCE
CAR STRUCK BY TRAIN FOT t R PERSONS INJURED (Per Picks Association.') AUCKLAND, last night. Font- people .were injured, three of them seriously, when a motor car in which they were returning from Pnkekoho to Auckland came into collision with the. locomotive 01 the WaiukuPaerata train at Pukekohe road lev.el crossing this afternoon. The victims
were : Ernest Cleave. 47. of Green Lane, concussion: condition serious. Mrs. Dorothy Cleave, wife of Mr. Cleave, concussion; condition serious. Miss Joyce Cleave, 19, daughter of Mi 1 . Cleave, concussion; condition serious.
Walter Rowe, of P» emu era, injury to pelvis; condition not serious. Heavy rain was falling at the time the accident occurred. When the car was nearly at, the crossing it- swerved sharply hi the right, but, the left, side came into contact with the middle, of the engine. The car was hurled into a. fence which marks tin* boundary ul the cattle slops, and turned completely over. 'I he hood was crumpled, the windscreen shattered, and the body work extensively damaged. The fence was levelled t.ollic gron m I.
Mr. Rowe was able to extricate himself from the vehicle, and he was helping (he two women when he collapsed. The crew of the train, with the help of passengers and -passers-by, righted the ear and extricated the occupants, who were brought to Auckland Hospital.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18632, 16 February 1935, Page 8
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