CROSSING FATALITY
EVIDENCE AT INQUEST COMMENT ON TRAIN’S SPEED Press Association INVERCARGILL, Friday. At the inquest held this evening concerning the deaths of Alexander Kelly and has daughter Ethel as the result of a level crossing accident at Mokotua, when a motor-lorry collided with a special train in -which the Minister of Railways, the Hon. W. B. Taverner, was travelling, the following verdict was returned: “That deceased met their deaths as the result of a collision when a motorlorry was struck by a special train.” The jury added a rider to the effect that no blame was attachable to the driver or the fireman of the train. The coroner, Mr. James Ward, referring to the fact that the special! train was permitted to run at 40 miles an hour irrespective erf crossings, said: “I notice that the special train was travelling at about 40 miles an hour when conveying the Minister of Railways over the line. Ido not know why it-should be necessary for him to travel at such speed, for the Minister has tile whole of the recess for the purpose of visiting various railway centres on departmental business. However, I suppose he has i good reason to travel so.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 874, 18 January 1930, Page 4
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201CROSSING FATALITY Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 874, 18 January 1930, Page 4
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