LEVEL CROSSING ACCIDENT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 125, 27 May 1914, Page 8

LEVEL CROSSING ACCIDENT.

DAMAGES AGAINST RAILWAY. WIDOW AWAIIUED JCISOO. { ]\y Telesrapii.—Vreps Associatiou.) i iIUISTCHUKCU. Tuesday. An a lion was heard in the Supreme i ,nirt to-day, in w.iieh Kranee- 1.. Jliuks, iiidiuv. nf A.-liley. proceeded against i lie Kiiii lor On- .-"in nl a- conipen--ation for the death of her husband. William Alexander P.ini.-. who was killed at llan-riora. in a railway ae.-i----d.Mii. mi >epteiiiber li'tli. Wl:i. It wai' -I I thai the ih-eear-ed was a earner. lh;it>- years of a.u'C I Mi the clay ~; ihe a -id. Nt he wa.s driving hi- team of lUe iiiirsiy aloiifr Street, llan--ioni. - .mc hiph building and a hijrh reii-i- ~1,-,nred his view of the railway !ne and lie failed to notice the appn.... -i of a train at the cro.--«ing. Since Ivs-i. 11 :i;ik stated, it had been the ■ ii-ti in of the Department to have a . H..--UIL'-deeper wave a tlaur when a train app-.ia h.d. but on the day in question til!- u.i.- not done. 'The result was that « •μ-ii the hot-e:- Merc on the crossing. the train came in at a rapid rate, strik--':iu r 'the I.Try ;sud vanning 'it (into tin- i-attlp i-lopri. I'inks bcin<r killed. The semaphore which was usually used. »,;> not on this occasion lowered, it ;u< claimed. ( i.u:i-el for the plaintiff alleged that tiie death of Rinks was due to the nPjrli-peii<-e of the Kailway Department. The widow, lie said, had three children, and had bppti deprived of her mean* of support. The jury awarded .il/illO damayes, onrthird of which was to go to the widow, and two-thirds to the children.