CROSSING TRAGEDY
KEEPER RUN DOWN BY TRAIN EFFORT TO STOP CYCLIST Press Association CHRISTCHURCH, Today. A verdict that death was due to his being accidentally run over by an electric railway train while engaged in liis duties as railway crossing-keeper at the Waltham Road crossing, was returned by the coroner, Mr. E. B. Mosley. S.M., at the inquest held yesterday concerning the death of Arthur William Bright. Evidence was given that a motorcyclist, whose name was still unknown, was approaching the crossing against Bright’s signal. Bright went on the track to stop the cyclist and was struck by the on-coming train. The motor-cyclist got over the line safely.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 964, 6 May 1930, Page 16
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108CROSSING TRAGEDY Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 964, 6 May 1930, Page 16
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