RAILWAY FATALITY
ACCIDENT DURING SHUNTING While walking along the railway line towards the Woburn station yesterday afternoon Ernest Seller, oi Queen Street, Upper Hutt, who is employed in the railway electrical gang, Petone, was knocked down by a truck and fatally injured. Seller was going to the station to catch a train to his home, when he heard the whistle of a train doing shunting work. Thinking it was on the line on which he was walking, he jumped over on to the next set of rails, only to be knocked down by a passing truck, one of the wheels of which passed over his right thigh, practically severing the leg. Medical aid was summoned, and the injured man was taken by the Free Ambulance to the Hospital, where he died at 11 p.m. •
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 117, 15 February 1928, Page 10
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134RAILWAY FATALITY Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 117, 15 February 1928, Page 10
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