ACCIDENTS AT CROSSINGS.
THE PIRIPIRI INQUEST. [Per Press Association.] Dannevirke, May 23. Sir S. E. McCarthy, coroner, delivered this morning his finding as a result of the inquest on Horace Dean, who was killed at Piripiri railway crossing yesterday by a collision between deceased’s motor car and a train. The Coroner found that no blame was attached to any railway officials controlling the train. He held that the deceased had driven negligently in maintaining a speed of twelve miles an hour to within "three feet of the crossing, which could have been noticed sooner had a sharp look-out been kept. There was a rider containing thirteen clauses, the chief of which were—That all stop signals should be painted red, to make them show up; that until banks at crossings are altered and given bigger batter, it cotild not reasonably be said that all had been done to avert accidents; and that footbridges were tho best means of minimising accidents.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 15, 23 May 1913, Page 2
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159ACCIDENTS AT CROSSINGS. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 15, 23 May 1913, Page 2
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