RAILWAY CROSSING FATALITY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2854, 5 March 1925, Page 3

RAILWAY CROSSING FATALITY.

TRAIN CRASHES INTO MOTOR CAR, FATHER AND CHILD SUCCUMB TO INJURIES. VICTIMS RESIDENTS OF FOXTON. A. fatal accident took place at Woodvillo on Thursday afternoon, when a motor ear containing Mr and Mrs Stanley Willis,..of Foxton, and their six weeks’ old child crashed into the Wellington-Napier mail at the McLean St. crossing, and was thrown against the railway gales in a mangled heap. All the occupants of the car were injured. Mr Willis sustained a fractured thigh and cuts and bruises to his face, while liis wife suffered concussion and shock. Mr and Mrs Willis and the baby were removed to the Pahiatua hospital where the baby succumbed shortly after arrival.

Very little hope was held out for Mr Willis when the nature of his injuries were examined, which consisted of a fractured thigh, ribs and other injuries to the head and body. Mr Willis passed away at 4 o’clock this morning. Mrs Willis’s injuries were not so severe but she is suffering from shock and it is hoped that she will pull through. The father will be laid to rest by the side of his infant child in the Pahiatua cemetery to-morrow afternoon.

It appears that Mr and Mrs Willis left their dairy farm on the Beach Road early on Tuesday morning hv motor car-to visit Mr Willis’s mother who resides at Pahiatua and were on their home run when the collision occurred. The sympathy of the Foxton public will go out to the widow and widowed mother of deceased. The late Mr Willis was about 28 years of age and had only been married within the last two years. He was well-known in (he Pahiatua district, where he was associated with his laic father (who passed away quite recently) in their dairy farm at Ivonini. About, a year ago, the late Mr Willis took over the dairy on the Beach Road.