SMASH IN SHANNON
NAPIER EXPRESS COLLIDES WITH CAR FIVE PERSONS INJURED. SOME IN SERIOUS CONDITION. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) PALMERSTON N., December 2. Five people were injured when the southbound Napier express collided with a motor car on th Sheehan street level crossing. Shannon, at 1.47 p.m. today. Those injured were:— Arthur John Hodge, aged 46, sharemilker, Moutoa; lacerated left leg and lacerated right wrist; condition not serious. Alice Hodge, aged 40; broken cheekbone, bruises and shock; condition not serious. Bertha Hodge, aged 17; fractured left thigh, bruises and cuts; condition serious. Dorothy Hodge, aged 6; fractured skull and fractured left thigh; condition very serious. Edwin Hodge, aged 2; fractured collarbone; condition not serious. Mr. Hodge was driving into Shannon from Moutoa with his wife and family when the accident occurred. The car, a tourer, was carried about 100 feet after the impact and was badly damaged. The occupants of the car were brought to Palmerston North Hospital by two of the hospital ambulances.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 December 1938, Page 5
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163SMASH IN SHANNON Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 December 1938, Page 5
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