ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 19663, 16 September 1927, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

CROSSING TRAGEDY. Yesterday afternoon a fatal accident occurred at the railway crossing a mile west of Kinvee, when the GrcymouthChristehurch express collided with a five-soator car. Henry Weir, a laborer, aged forty, and a married man with tlTrco children, was killed, and the driver of the car (Arthur Lionel Stewart, married, and aged forty-five) Was seriously injured. The accident occurred at 4.J0 p.m. The motor car was proceeding north towards the crossing, which is not considered a dangerous one. It was struck by tho express and thrown against a telegraph pole. The driver received cuts to the face and head, and was admitted to Christchurch Hospital in a serious condition. The passenger was killed outright. _ The body of the car was smashed to pieces. The express, it is stated, was passing at forty-live miles an hour, and the car was travelling at about twentyfive miles per hour. There were two dogs in the car at the time of the accident. One was killed and the other so badly hurt that it had to be destroyed. —Press Association.

KNOCKED DOWN BY MOTOR. An cighi-ycav-olil boy named Clarence Moore was knocked down by a motor car in Arthur street yesterday afternoon, and was taken to the hospital at 4.30 suffering from head injuries. The child resides with his mother at 75 Elm Row.