MOTOR CAR DISASTER.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LVII, Issue 8910, 9 November 1907, Page 2

MOTOR CAR DISASTER.

An extraordinary motor-car disaster occurred at the eastern end of this Lake of Geneva recently at night* The car, a large and powerful one, containing six people, was travelling iv the darkness, when it dashed headlong into the closed gates of a railway crossing. The impact was terrific. The gates gave way like paper, and the car speed across the railway. As the gates were crashed through, however, a piece of the flying debris struck the chauffeur aud stuuued him, causing him to entirely lose his control over the car. Thus with no hand on its steering wheel and with no slackening of pace, the car continued its career across country the lake. The few hundred yarfflf which separate the railway from the water were covered in a minute or two, and the next moment it had jumped the sixty feet bank into the water. Several spectators of the disaster promptly rendered help, or all the occupants of the car must have been drowned. As it was, when they were brought to land it was found that four of them were seriously injured, two so severely that they are not expected to recover. The car is still in the lake many feet under water.—Home paper.