GIRL KILLED BY TRAIN
ENGINE CREW NOT TO BLAME
RAN ON TO RAILWAY LINE Press Association CHRISTCHURCH, Thursday. A verdict that Mary Isabel Clarke, aged 12 years, met her death as a result of being run over by the Parnas-sus-Christchurch train on January 25, no blame being attached to the railway employees, was returned by the coroner, Mr. E. D. Mosley, S.M., at an inquest concerning this girl’s death held today. The only witnesses called were Thomas Dick, engine-driver of the train, and Claude Alfred James Harris, his fireman. Dick said he whistled three short blasts when.. approaching the crossing. He did not see the girl, as he was looking out to the right hand side. The fireman saw her and called on him to stop the train. He instantly applied the brakes, but the girl was struck. The engine passed over her before it could be stopped. Harris said the girl ran from the left-hand side on to the track. Clearly she had not heard or seen the train. Probably her view would be obscured by a corrugated iron fence. Both witnesses agreed that the crossing was a reasonably open one and not considered dangerous.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 891, 7 February 1930, Page 16
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