SHUNTER KILLED

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22073, 22 April 1937, Page 10

SHUNTER KILLED

ACCIDENT IN RAILWAY YARDS RUN OVER BY RAKE OF TRUCKS Injuries causing almost instant death were suffered by Thomas R. Lightfoot, a shunter, aged 42 years, when he was run over by a rake of trucks and the tender of an engine in Christchurch railways goods yards at 6.30 p.m. yesterday. There were no witnesses of the accident, and it is surmised that Lightfoot stepped back from a moving rake of trucks, which he was directing, into the line-of another rake which was being shunted, in the opposite direction | along the next track. The accident occurred almost under the Madras street overhead bridge on the No. 11 track. The trucks which Lightfoot was directing were moving west on the No. 10 track, and the train which struck him was being hauled east by a C class engine which was in reverse pushing three trucks ahead of it. Apparently the foremost of these struck him and he feil beneath them, the train continuing for approximately 150 feet before it could be stopped. The tender of the engine had to be jacked up for the body to be removed from under the first bogey. Lightfoot was a married man, withj two children, living at 72- Ruskin street, Addington. He had only returned to Christchurch a. year ago from the North Island. In his younger days he was well known as an amateur athlete "In Southland, and after serving with New Zealand Forces in the Great War he joined the Railways Department on his return. He was the only son of Mr and Mrs W. T. Lightfoot, of North road. Belfast. The body was taken to the morgue where an inquest will be opened this morning at 9.30 o'clock. CHILD KILLED WHEN STRUCK BY CAR (FBESS ASSOCIATION TSLEOBAH.) DANNEVIRKE, April 21. The infant son of Mr M. R. Booth, an employee of the Dannevirke Bor* ough Council, was struck by a car driven by Mr Hector Lewis Morrison, a drover, of Dannevirke, yesterday. The child was killed. instantly. The child, aged three and a half years, was running diagonally across the street, apparently to greet his father, when he was hit by the buffer of the car. ,• BOY SUFFERS HEAD INJURIES

Alan Wright, a boy living at 15 Stratford street, Fendalton, suffered head injuries when the bicycle-he was riding came into collision" with a motor-lorry in Harper aVenue, late yesterday afternoon. He was admitted to the Christchurch Public Hospital shortly aftef 6 o'clock last evening.