CAR TRAGEDY

Hokitika Guardian, 29 June 1931, Page 5

CAR TRAGEDY

FOUR PERSONS BURNED TO DEATH.

HEAD ON COLLISION

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.; (Received this day at 1.0 p.m.) LONDON, jYme 28. Awakened by a terrific crash after midnight, I dashed to a window and saw in a glare Lighting the whole district, two blazing motor cars, locked head on and little black figures in the roaring furnace, says an eye witness of a collision at Watford, by Pass Road, Elstree, in which four were burned and four injured. The cars were a baby saloon containing two medical students and two girls all dead, and burning and one in which pjyania clad girls and two Japanese men returning from a pyjama party of whom four were seriously hurt. One Japanese escaped. Bye witnesses heard screams of suffering people in the imprisoned saloon car. Blazing petrol coverde the roadway.

■iSybil Dixon leant out ol a window shouting "Let me out, I am burning to death.”

Gcimei, a Japanese, rushed to open the docir, but the Haines beat him back badly burned. The driver mid conductor of a passing bus wrenched off a door and pulled (HU Dixon, who died In the hospital. A man was crouched over the steering wheel, apparently already dead. Miss Dixon’s clothes were burned off. She rolled the roadway crying "Ob mother I am dying.”

The bus driver turned a fire extinguisher on a man staggering around wjth his clothes ablaze, but he collapsed and died.