CROSSING SMASH
MOTOR DRIVER KILLED.
TWO CHILDREN INJURED
AUCKLAND, Thursday.
A man was killed and kis young daughter and young son severely injured, when a car in which they were travelling was struck by an inwardbound suburban train at Portage Road level crossing, New Lynn, to-night.
The names of the victims are:— Killed: Leonard Stott, aged 41, grocer, of Gold Eoad, New Lynn. Injured: Lorna May Stott, aged 13, fracture of thigh and internal injuries, condition serious; Baymond Thomas Stott, aged 13, fracture of leg and injury to back, condition serious.
With the two children as passengers, Stott was driving home from his shop at Ponsonby. The car was proceeding up Portage Eoad when it was struck by the 6.5 p.m. train from Swanson for Auckland, the driver of which was J. Leo and the guard D. S. White. As it was negotiating the rise the car, an old touring model, was struck near the right-hand back wheel. It somersaulted, striking the railing of the cattlestop, and carrying away portion of the wire fence. It finally came to rest right way up, but facing the opposite direction, at the side of the railway line, 53 feet from the point of impact. All three occupants were thrown out of the car. Stott was killed almost instantly. The two children were taken to the Auckland Hospital.—(P.A.)
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 22 February 1935, Page 4
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