LEVEL-CROSSING SMASH.
SOUTH AUSTRALIAN ACCIDENT.
(BT CABLE— PRESS ABBOCIATIOV—COPYRIGHT.) (AUSTRALIAN AND V.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.)
ADELAIDE, May 12. At the inquest on five members of the Caire family, killed in the' Cheltenham level-crossing smash on April 30th, evidence showed that the crossing-keeper on the night of the accident was a labourer from Port Adelaide goods yard, who had been pressed into the service for that night onlj\ He has been very short-sighted since he was eight years of age, and knew nothing of the duties of a crossing-keeper.
Prior to the accident he had said to the man in the signal cabin: "I am nervous about this job. I cannot see." The stationmaster at Cheltenham gave evidence that the usual.custom was for the signalman to take charge of the crossing when the. day-keeper left, but on this occasion another keeper was required owing to extra duties.
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Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18690, 13 May 1926, Page 10
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145LEVEL-CROSSING SMASH. Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18690, 13 May 1926, Page 10
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