RAILWAY CROSSING FATALITY
MAN KILLED AT TAUMARUNUI. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent) TAUMARANUT. this day. Neil Albretson, aged 51, was killed this morning by the early train from the north. He was driving a cart laden with meat, and was entering the town at the Rangaroa crossing. The engine missed his horse, but struck the cart, smashing it to matchwood. Albretson fell on the front of the footplate of the engine, and remained there till the train was pulled up two hundred yards nearer the station. In falling on the footplate Mr. Albretson sustained a fractured skull, and died a few minutes after admission to the hospital. The driver of the engine was Slyvester Horan. of Te Kuiti. Albretson was a native of Denmark, and lived at Morrinsville for some years.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 96, 24 April 1922, Page 4
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