FATAL ACCIDENT.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 22 March 1913, Page 5

FATAL ACCIDENT.

TRAIN RUNS INTO TRAP. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) DUNEDLN, Last Night. ' At the inquest on the body of Robrort Adair, who was killed' at MoSgie) yesterday/.the evidence showed that deceased was driving a -horse and trap from Dunedin to Mosgiel, and when classing the Gordon fet>ad at 5.50 p.m. ; the train ran into the trap, cutting it to pieces and throwing thv occupants out, the deceased receiving '■such injuries, that he died soon after. Three giris, named Trevc-than, aged 9, 7 and 4 years respectively, also received serious injuries and were conveyed to the Dunedin hospital. The evidence went to show that-the train was travelling at from 20 to 25 miles an hour, and whistled before reaching the epot as usual. The trap was travelling at a fast pace and the driver was looking n the opposite direction. On seeing the trap the engine driver pulled up the train, but it was then on thj line and too late to get clear. One of the girls is still unconscious. Adair was about 35 years of age and was married about a year ago. He leaves a widow and one child. A verdict was returned that death was due to injuries received, by being run over by a railway train, no blame being attachable to the driver of the train.