CARE AT CROSSINGS
BUS DRIVER WITH LOAD OF CHILDREN FINE OF £2 IMPOSED For driving his motor-bus across a railway level-crossing at New Lynn in front of a train. Frank Willetts was fined £2 and costs in the Police Court this morning. It was stated that he was carrying a number of children to school. Mr. Hart appeared for Willetts, entering a plea of guilty, SeniorSergeant Powell said the man had driven in front of a train at the Totara Avenue crossing. Xew Lynn. A whistle was blown. The van cleared the line, but it was a fairly narrow escape. There was a number cf children on board the bus. According to Mr. Hart, defendant had seen the train 300 yards away and was round the corner and out of sight before the train reached the crossing. “Yes,” agreed the magistrate, Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., “but if anything had happened to the driver while they were crossing the line, there would have been trouble.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 945, 11 April 1930, Page 10
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165CARE AT CROSSINGS Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 945, 11 April 1930, Page 10
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