"A DEATH TRAP."

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 127, 1 June 1938, Page 8

"A DEATH TRAP."

SHOULD BE CLOSED, PALMERSTON CROSSING. I i COMMENT AT INQUEST. * i (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) . PALMERSTOX NORTH, '"The Cook Street crossing is a detty trap and sliould be closed. Failing tlfc, a crossing keeper should be placed til*, at times when trains are a It is very easy to get caught thejTj said the coroner. Mr. A. J. Graham ,* the inquest to-day on Samuel Jam* Sanson, aged 70, of Otorohanga, motorist, who was killed at the cro<rin»' on May 27. The crossing lie* a few on southern side of the railway station. It contains numerous tracks "and is njfci used in shunting operations. The engine driver of the train cobcorned, the Wellington-Xapier express, said the crossing was a source of anrietr to him. He thought there should a* be a crossing there at aIL When the coroner learned that tl* crossing was not on the list of those t« be eliminated under the present programme. he asked Mr. A. H. Xorthover represent ng the Railways Department to draw attention to the position.