EXPRESS HITS CAR
FIVE OCCUPANTS HURT LEVEL CROSSING SMASH (Ter Press Association.)
PALMERSTON N., this day.
At Shannon yesterday afternoon the south-bound Napier express struck a car driven by Arthur John Hodge, a share-milker, Moutoa, who was accompanied by his wife and three children.
Mr. Hodge suffered head injuries, and a fracture of the left thigh, his wife suffered shock, and a daughter, Bertha, agpd 16, a fracture of the left thigh, Dorothy, aged five, a broken leg, and Edwin, aged two, possible internal injuries. All were sent to hospital.
The car, an old touring model, was considerably damaged, being carried 100 ft. beyond the crossing.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19803, 3 December 1938, Page 4
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