MOTOR FATALITY
CROSSING SMASH YOUNG MAN KILLED. TRAGEDY AT ASHBURTON. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) ASHBURTON. October 27. A fatality occurred at the level crossing in the Ashburton borough when a motor-car struck the second engine of the evening express from the south on Saturday. The car was wrecked. Hector William Nelson, single, aged 23, a farm hand, of Lagmhor, was throw half a chain, receiving injuries from which he died shortly after admission to hospital. The driver of the car, Anthony John Johns, Ashburton, Mrs. Johns and their child aged two, suffered from shock. The two latter are still in hospital. Nelson’s father. Mr. James Thomas Nelson, lives at Papanui, Christchurch.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 October 1940, Page 7
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110MOTOR FATALITY Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 October 1940, Page 7
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