CROSSING COLLISION
MAN KILLED AT ADDINGTON. EXPRESS FOLLOWS WORKERS’ TRAIN. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. The driver and sole occupant of a light saloon motor-car, Robert Stewart Robertson, a married man, aged about 30 and a labourer employed by the Public Works Department at Little River, was killed at the Addington level crossing this morning, when his car collided with the north-bound express train from Invercargill. It is thought that he must have started to proceed over the crossing immediately the morning workers’ train had passed and did not see the express approaching on the centre line. The express was running about ten minutes late when it reached the crossing; going over this almost at the same time as the workers’ train. There are warning lights on both sides of the crossing and it was stated by the Railways Department that they were operating at me time of the accident.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 April 1939, Page 6
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151CROSSING COLLISION Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 April 1939, Page 6
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