WELLINGTON TRAM ACCIDENT.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8806, 7 May 1907, Page 2

WELLINGTON TRAM ACCIDENT.

(Per Press Association.) Wellington, May 7. The inquest on the victim of the Brooklyn tramway fatality was continued to-day. The City Solicitor intimated that the tests conducted by the Public Works Department had not yet been completed. Mr Stuart Richardson, City Electrical Engineer, described the movements of the car which met with the accident. He was not prepared to give an opinion as to the cause of the car running away at present. He wished thoroughly to examine the car and hoar'the principal witnesses Mr James, traffic superintendent, said lie considered a car of tiro type in question safer for taking curves than a smaller car. He had formed no theorv about the cause of the accident. Rea, the motormau, might have been ou duty nine hours with two spells. The speed limit ou the Brooklyn line was seven and a half miles an hour. If the motormau was late he was asked for amcxpla nation but not fined. Rea was running a special car, which had to fit in with ordinary cars; Reliable men Were picked for the special service. He believed Rea was a cool steady man.

Richard Elliott, passenger by the car, said lie saw the motormau putting on the hand brake, but did not know about the other brakes. Witness new some time before the accident that the car was beyond control. Ho believed that _ from tho commencement of the journey the motormau handled tho brakes properly. Enquiry adonrned for lunch.