TOLL OF CROSSINGS

Hokitika Guardian, 4 January 1933, Page 3

TOLL OF CROSSINGS

: DEATHS DURING PAST YEAR. • MARKED DECREASE SHOWN. ; Only seven people were killed as a result of level crossing accidents in the Dominion in 1932, the ‘smallest number of deal;hs >iu the l past ll years. ■ln 1923'hi lie lives were lost, wljile' in 1931 the tonl was 13. life number

for this year is less than a : quarter of the disastrous total of 34 in 1930, when 12 peonl'e were killed in two collisions. . In the first seven mouths of 1932, (the position was. serious) 'as iii 29 ■'.■level-' .crossing accidents five peopl'd had beenkilled and 24 injured. -In'’the later of the ye ir, however.' there' was. a Welcome reduction in -the dumber of accidents, o.ly two people-‘meeting their idea- hs and six being injured between August and December. •

Of the seven ipeople killed "in'- 1932, three were drivers of fnofor-trucks, one the’ driver, of a motor-car, two pasenters in motors, arid the other a pedestrian. I’here were no fatal accidents in the ..immediate vicinity , of Auckland City, although the driver of a cre.atp lorry at Ttiakau received injuries fromwhich he subsequently died.

RECORDS FOR TEN YEARS. . Following , are the) numbers of persons killed and injured in level-crossing accidents in New Zealand since 1922':

156 498 ’ 6.34

. • . KSli^d Injured.. Totals' 1922 .... 14 •..,■31 ,45 1923 . .... [> 32 . .41 V 1924 ... 13 98 .. i in 1925 ..V 11 80 91 1926 ... 14 .40 , .54 1927 ..... 13 31 . .44 1928 ■ ... 14 . 47 01 .1929 ..... 14 . 38 .50 1939 ... 34 . . 52 86 1931; ... 13 21. 34 1932 ... 7 , 30 .. 37,. •