THREE PEOPLE INJURED.

Thames Star, Volume LXV, Issue 19211, 18 September 1934, Page 3

THREE PEOPLE INJURED.

ONE IN SERIOUS CONDITION. Level-Crossing Smash. ACCIDENT AT POKENO. CAR STRUCK BY EXPRESS. (Special to star). AUCKLAND, Sept. 18. Three persons were injured, one of them seriously, when a motor-car in which they were travelling was struck by the Auckland-Rotorua express at the Cameron Street levelcrossing, about a quarter of a mile south of the Pokeno railway station, at 11.20 yesterday morning. The injured are: — Mrs. • Sarah Charlton, aged 64, widow, of Taupaki, near Kumeu. Head injuries; condition serious. Mr. Richard Knight Keith, aged 41, farmer, of Mangatawhiri, driver of the car. Head injuries; not serious. Fergus Keith, aged 13, only child of Mr. R. K. Keith, fractured right arm and shock; condition not serious. Mrs. Keith and a friend, Mrs. R. Raymond, left the car a minute or two earlier and saw the accident. The car was almost across when the train struck it a glancing blow on the left side near the back, throwing it down a bank beside the track and damaging it extensively.

All three'occupants of the motorcar were thrown out, Mrs. Charlton falling on the far side of the cattlestop and so near to the track that she narrowly escaped being run over by the express. Mr. Keith and his son, who were together in the front seat, were hurled down a bank a little ahead of the motor-car, which did not overturn.

Mrs. Charlton and Mr. Keith wero later admitted to the Waikato hospital. Fergus Keith, who was discharged from the Auckland Hospital only last week after being a patient there for five months, was taken -back to the institution in a St. John ambulance.