WOMAN KILLED
CROSSING SM ASH
MAN ESCAPES LIGHTLY.
(Per Press Assvctuuon Copyright.) j
AUCKLAND, May 17.
A fatal railway crossing , collision occurred at Matangi,* six 'miles- from iauuui'tpn, tins aue.uoon, • when A motor car, driven by Joiin James Patlersou, or.. ivianaia,,; ‘Taranaki, was struck by , a Eranktop-—Cambridge train. A passehger ,m~ the car, Mr s JN, Jones, aged years, t w.iip of Market* Jones, farmer,; oi 1 Manaia, , received grave head injuries and she died within half an hour, . ...
,'ihe driver, Patterson; escaped with cuts about the face and shock.
Tho engine struck ! . - the motor car with.terrific force on, the near• side, where Mrs Jones ,was .riding.,. The motor car, a large closed model, was carried for about 20 yards on the cowcatcher of the : engine, and was then thrown aside, being reduced almost 1° wreckage. • The train was pulled up smartly., ; - Mrs Jones and. Patterson were extricated front £h® wreckage. Mrs, Jonea succumbed to her. injuries while being given attention.’-' Pattersony who was suffei ing. mainly from shock, was not sent.to hospital... SlS- :..
PaUerson... who, extensive dairy farms at Manafa, nhd'.'aisoT'near“Mor* ringville;: ws--dffsveUing; to his Waikito? farm. - . Mis only -pas. senger.. was. -Mrs • Jones,. who intended visiting her Te . Aruba. ■ Mrs Jones is survived by, her • husband and tw ; o young children,
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 May 1933, Page 5
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