LEVEL RAILWAY CROSSINGS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3746, 26 January 1928, Page 2

LEVEL RAILWAY CROSSINGS.

v • MOTORISTS SHOULD SLOW DOWN. Palmerston North, Yesterday. At the inquest touching the death of the Rev. Walter Spencer Tremain, who was killed in a collision with the New Plymouth express at Longburn on January 16, the Coroner delivered a verdict that deceased had died in the Palmerston North Hospital on January 16 from coma following laceration of the brain, caused by injuries, received at the Rongotea-Longburn level crossing.

It was obvious, he commented, that. the crossing had been made dangerous by the trees obscuring the view, and their removal would be in the best interests of both en-gine-drivers and the public using the roads. The clearer the view the. less danger there would be of collisions, and it woul dbe well if the Railway Department wrote to the various local bodies asking them to co-operate in including owners of corner sections near the railway to cut down any trees that might lie obscuring the view of the line. The owners, he thought, would be only too willing to co-operate. “At the same time,” proceeded the Coi-oner, “it must again he stressed that drivers of motor-cars must he keenly alert to the dangers that beset them at level crossings. The only safe way is to slow down when approaching one, and to keep a good look-out for trains. While every safeguard should be given by the Railway Department, extreme vigilance should be exercised by motorists.”