FAILBIG TO STOP.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 362, 17 February 1937, Page 4

FAILBIG TO STOP.

Car-Driver At Railway Crossing. For failing to stop at the Tarikl tressing while a train Was approaching. tor the purpose of ascertaining if the railway line was dear. B. Rogers. Waipiiku, was fined 30s (costs 12s), wlr n he appear d before Mr W. H. Woodward, S.M., in the Stratford Court this morning. Defendant, wrote stating that when he came part the station the train ' s in Ihe station. At the crossing his car engine stalled and he could hot get. off the line in time. Sergeant Anniss sa'd defendant's car was hit broadside on by the N" w Plymouth express. He was not Injur d but h’s car was badly damaged. Lear Street Mishap. For a similar offence at the Lear Street crossing at Stratford, W. A. Mackay was ordered to pay costs 10s. Defendant said the night was a very bad one and the train was backing in about 10.20. At the particular lime there was about three feet of grass alongside the line but it had since been cut. On the east side of the line there was a strong light and visibility was very bad. Sergeant Anniss explained that defendant ran into trucks, the van having already gone over the crossing. "It is a very different case from the last one,” said the Magistrate, in convicting defendant and ordering him to pay costs IDs.