TRAGIC DEATH OF YOUNG MARRIED WOMAN
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BLENHEIM, Juno 19. A young married woman, Mrs. Euphemia Frances Muriel Page, aged 25, was killed instantly when tlie car in which she was a passenger was struck by the Picton-Blenheim train at Ihe Bridge Street level crossing. Iler husband, .Jo.seph Henry Page, aged 118, and Keith Bridgwell Yealauds, aged 25, who was driving, were injured. The car, a heavy old model sedan, was almost clear of .the line when slruck by the locomotive's coweatcher. The impact was terrifie and the car was spun round amidst a; sltower of glass and debris to finish up with a second crash against a big concrete power pole ten f'eet from the line. Mr. and Mrs. Page had been in the car only for a few seeonds before the fat'ality. Thev were walking into town when overtaken by Mr. Yealands and accepted a lift. It is understood the car was still not in top gear when the eollision oecurr.ecL
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Chronicle (Levin), 20 June 1947, Page 3
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