RAILWAY SAFETY
SEVEN MILLIONS CARRIED WITHOUT FATALITY
From Our Resident Reporter)
WELLINGTON, To-day. rp|-||S MONTH the New Zealand Railways carried their seven millionth passenger since last a passenger was fatally injured, and the total is claimed as a world’s record.
It is now about three years since the last passenger fatality upon a New Zealand line, though several accidents have occurred. In Great Britain the railway companies announce that the chances of fatal injury while travelling in a railway coach are one in three millions. New Zealand, states Railways Head Office, has thus more than doubled the British total and is still adding to it.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 606, 7 March 1929, Page 1
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105RAILWAY SAFETY Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 606, 7 March 1929, Page 1
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