CROSSING ACCIDENT
EXPRESS STRIKES CAR IN CANTERBURY MAN AND WOMAN KILLED. VEHICLE CARRIED FOR QUARTER OF A MILE. iDy Telegraph—Press Association.i ASHBURTON. This Day. A shocking double fatality occurred at the Fairton railway crossing when the south-bound express, travelling at high speed, crashed into a two-seater motor-car which, entangled in the cowcatcher, was carried for a quarter of a mile, the motor engine dropping oil and lodging on the step of the third carriage. The driver of the car. John McDonald. a farmer, aged about 55. of Seafield. was carried the full distance in the wreckage. His companion, Mrs McDonald, was thrown out. being literally cut to pieces by the wheels, so (.hat actual identification is impossible. Mr McDonald leaves three sons, one of whom is in camp at Papqkura.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 February 1941, Page 6
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130CROSSING ACCIDENT Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 February 1941, Page 6
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