CAR HITS TRAIN

Southland Times, Issue 22508, 16 February 1935, Page 4

CAR HITS TRAIN

THREE PEOPLE SERIOUSLY INJURED. (Per United Press Association.) Auckland, February 15. Four people were injured, three of them seriously, when a motor car in which they were returning from Pukekohe to Auckland,, came into collision with the locomotive of the WaiukuPaerata train at the Pukekohe road level crossing this afternoon. The victims were:—

Ernest Cleave, aged 47,. of Greenlane, concussion. His condition is serious.

Mrs Dorothy Cleave, wife of Ernest Cleave, concussion. Her condition is serious.

Miss Joyce Cleave, daughter of Mr and Mrs Cleave, aged 19, concussion. Her condition is serious.

Walter Rowe, of Remuera, injury to the pelvis. His condition is not serious.

Heavy rain was falling at the time the accident occurred. When the car was nearly at the crossing, it swerved sharply to the right, but the left side came into contact with the middle of the engine. The car was hurled into a fence which marks the boundary of the cattle stops and turned completely over. 1116 hood was crumpled, the windscreen shattered and the bodywork extensively damaged. The fence was levelled to the ground. Rowe was able to extricate himself from the vehicle, and he was helping the two women when he collapsed. The crew of the train, with the help of the passengers and passers by, righted the car and extricated the occupants who were brought to Auckland hospital.