CROSSING TRAGEDY
EXPRESS STRIKES MOTOR CYCLIST. (By Te/ej/raph"* Per Preaa Association) CHRISTCHURCH, December 7. Fatal injuries were received by Eric Andrew, a single man,/aged 21, when a motor cycle that he was riding was struck by the engine of an inward express train at. a level crossing at Islington at five o’clock this afternoon.
Andrew was employed as. a chemist, at the New Zealand Refrigerating Company’s Feezing works at Islington. As he was riding over the crossing, the cow catcher of the engine caught him, and lie was flung a distance of eight or ten yards. He was picked up unconscious, and was rushed to the Christchurch Hospital by the express train, but he died at seven o’clock. The crossing is an open one. allowing a clear view of the line and it lias a compulsory stop sign. Ancu-vw apparently, did not see the train, nor hear the whistle.
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Hokitika Guardian, 8 December 1931, Page 5
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149CROSSING TRAGEDY Hokitika Guardian, 8 December 1931, Page 5
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