LEVEL CROSSING SMASH
MOTORIST GRAVELY HURT CAR DRAGGED 75 YARDS (Pur Truss Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. A well-known limber merchant, Charles Henry Frankham, aged G 7. Herne Bay, wa,s sent to hospital suffering from serious head injuries as a result ot a crossing smash shortly after 10 o’clock last night, his heavy sedan motor car being struck by the engine of a suburban train at the Boston road level crossing, Mount Eden. The car was dragged along the track about. 75 yards before coming to rest across the permanent way. Frankham was driving alone in the car, which \vas directly on the crossing near the boundary of the Auckland gaol when it was struck by an engine proceeding from Henderson to Auckland. The force of the collision crushed and buckled the car on the left side, the battered vehicle being swept down the track on the fender of the engine. With his head cut severely by glass from a broken window, Frankham was sent to hospital in the St. John Ambulance. His condition to-day is reported to be serious.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19692, 26 July 1938, Page 6
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179LEVEL CROSSING SMASH Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19692, 26 July 1938, Page 6
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