MAN KILLED IN CROSSING SMASH
EXPRESS HITS CAR DRIVER BADLY HURT (Special to THE SUN.) CHRISTCHURCH, Thursday. A passenger was killed and the driver of a five-seater motor-car seriously injured, when the Greymouth-Christ-church express collided with the car on a crossing near Kirwee, 25 miles from Christchurch. The driver of the car was Arthur Lionel Stewart, a married man, aged about 45, and the passenger was Henry Weir, labourer, aged 40, a married man with thre children. Both were residents of Kirwee. The express struck the car and hurled it against a telegraph pole. Mr. Stewart received cuts to the face and head and was taken to the Christchurch Hospital. His condition is serious. Mr. Weir was killed outright. The body of the car was smashed to pieces. There were two dogs in the car at the time. One was killed and the other had to be destroyed.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 151, 16 September 1927, Page 14
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148MAN KILLED IN CROSSING SMASH Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 151, 16 September 1927, Page 14
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