LEVEL CROSSING FATALITY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3531, 31 August 1926, Page 2

LEVEL CROSSING FATALITY.

TRAIN CRASHES INTO CAR

MARRIED WOMAN KILLED,

. Marton, August 28. A distressing level crossing accident resulting in a woman being killed and three other persons more or less seriously injured, occurred g.t the Greatford station, four miles from Marton, at 6.30 last evening, when the Wanganui-Palmerston N. mixed train ran into a five-seater ear driven by Mr Leonard Weston, a well-known Mangaweka resident. Mr Weston was accompanied by his daughter, Beatrice, his sister-in-law, Mrs Jurgens, of Taihape, and Bertie Jurgens. The party were returning from Palmerston N. after having conveyed J\lrs Weston to an hospital there. It is stated that, on approaching the crossing, Mr Weston kept a good look out, especially towards the station, but when he reached the rails he found'the train almost upon them, from the opposite direction. He made frantic efforts to get the car off the track, blit it was too late to avoid a crash, which threw the ear occupants to the roadway, the car being borne.along to the cattle stop, where it was deposited —a mass qf wreckage. It was found that Mrs Jurgens and Bertie were most seriously injured. They were admitted to hospital, where the woman died at 11 p.m. The others suffered from injuries and shock.