TRAMWAY COLLISION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 5, 7 January 1904, Page 2

TRAMWAY COLLISION.

INQIJIUY INTO THE AUCKLAND CATASTItOPHE. Per Press Association. AUCkLAM), .lun. C. Tin! jury lit tliu iin|in-stt round that thtj inline of tin- collision wns tha I'nilurv of tlu' ratchet l;nike to act, thus causing thf motorliian to loso his head. Through his want of knowledge lie did not use other brakes which were under his Command. TEXT OF THE VERDICT. Later. 'Phe followi'iii* is -the text ol' tho verdict in Hie tramw.ay inlujilr.v : '-'That Ami You-iitf lUvßiirth met her (Infill on. Hie ni K lil oi Dec. 24 th, 11)03, on double-deck car No. 31), •proi-miling from Ki'iigslanil to Audita in. I, by u trolley pole lyrenMnff away from the coiiiductar, the said trolley arm becoming iiiMim'ii-ag'eablo ami strikini;- lier on Uie head and causing her deallr. 'Plait the death of lli-nijuiuiu Li-nds-ay was caused througih the colliding of cui' No. 39 U.IIU 101 u'hi nation car No. 32. That the death of William Caley was caused through collision between cars Not. 3M and 32 on tlie night of Dec. 2lth, 10U3. Tlie jury also found that the cause of the collision j was thuiuigh tin- ratchet brake luilI iiiK to act, causing- tlie liiotornm/nto lose Jiis head, and (hat through his want of kmnvled'gv .|>e 'did not uso other brakes under his command. The fo-1 lowing rider was aidlded ■— That in eiwisupienee ol tho steep grades in and around Auckland tlw use of donble-decker cars be dlscon--1 limed. We also recommend that tho company's mode of teachiiiir motormen and conductors is inadequate. .1101 e stringent ineasiii-es shotiUl ho adopted iu«d life guaitis should bo attached to cars with as littk doay as possiUc. We agree that tho ft, tl '""J' 1 ' 1 ' "" nU ' H ia ( i" U " ™«*- mctory when m p r< ,p m . „,<,,.,. WlO brakes. We also a«m> that luotoriniii and conductors should b« *fcjeit to medical examination,, 7* to their f,t„es«. We are- also 0/ omThe coroner stated that he propoUrn, u-' v li *. rUer U*™dld y t !e h""' t" 1,a,Kl WW * «*'» siuitid the Hoard of Trwk\ , Vlckwi "«n, District Emrimwi.