CROSSING FATALITY.
FATE OF DEAF LABOURER. WALKED IN FRONT OF ENGINE. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHUB.CH, Sunday. A labourer# Mr. Henry McCausland, aged 57. was killed instantaneously about 5 o'clock on Saturday afternoon when ho was struck by a mixed train at Amberley crossing. Mr. McCaiisland was totally • deaf, and although the driver sounded the whistle twice Mr. McCausland walked on to the line in front of the engine. He was carried 25 yards along the line and was dead when a doctor reached him two minutes later. The crossing is not dangerous and no accidents have happened there for a long time. No lights were burning on the train at the time, but Mr. McCausland should have been able to see 400 yards up the line in the direction from which the train approached. An inquest was held before the coroner, Mr. H. A. Young, at Amberley this morning, and a verdict of accidental death was returned, the coroner adding a rider "that no blame was attachable to the railway employees.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 261, 4 November 1935, Page 10
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