“JUST ESCAPED”

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 155, 27 March 1926, Page 8

“JUST ESCAPED”

MOTORISTS AT LEVEL CROSSINGS For failing to keep a vigilant lookinnt for trains when crossing oyer the Hutt Road railway level crossing and £s?withcoX.ln’the Magistrate’s Court ye Mr r Af'N. Davies, who appeared for the Railway Department, said that when 5 25 n m. train from Lambton statin to Lower Hutt was approaching the PetOlie crossing on a recent da ’mearlv ran down a motor-car which hiqt escaped coming in contact. with Im? nnrine The ' eliicle was travelling at a Seed estimated about 25 miles ner hour. “The defendant, added Mr. Davies, "from his position should have obtained a clear and uninterrupted view of the line before he took the cross'’’“Tlie sun dazzled my vision, Your Worship and 1 could hardly see,” said ScCalman to Mr. Page, SM. “It was shining brightlv on the bitumen road nil the wav from Lower Hutt. I was onlv travelling •at about 10 miles an Four and I heard no tram whistle as I approached the crossing. Then when I began to cross the line I heard ti e siren and had to accelerate quickly to save being run down.” ' Mr Page: It is all the more reason vou should have exercised every, care when vou failed to hear fI, P wl"=Hand vonr vision was poor. You will be fined £5- • , On a similar charge of passing .over ■the Bunnv Street level crossin" withour first taking reasonable . care, Edward Da’-’-ett was fined