LEVEL CROSSING TRAGEDY
ELDERLY WIDOW KILLED BY EAILCAR. While walkiug horrio from a city theatre at about 4.37 p.m. on Saturday, Mrs. .lahe Thaih Weir, widow, aged 8S years, residing a't 402 Gliurcli Street, Palmerston North, was slruck by a railcar on the Princess Street. level c.rossing and was lcilled instantaneously. An eye-witness, Mr. Aubrey Jennings Skilton, radio elec.trician, said tlie railcar was approaching Ihe crossing from Napier and sounded its horn (wice. Tio thought Mrs. Weir saw the railear and endeavouved to cross the lines ahead of it. Mrs. Weir was carried 54 feet by the railear before being tlirown clear. The driver of the railear was Ernest Peach, Trafalgar Street, Johnsonville, and the guard was Josepli Walker, 13 Caineron Street, Kaiwarra, Wellington. An inquest was opened yesterday afternoon and was adjourned sine die after evidence of identilication had been taken.
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Chronicle (Levin), 15 July 1946, Page 4
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142LEVEL CROSSING TRAGEDY Chronicle (Levin), 15 July 1946, Page 4
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