YOUNG CHILD’S DEATH
Playing on Railway Line CORONER’S COMMENTS Dominion Special Service. Auckland, Alarch 18. An opinion that parents and others who permitted children to play in the vicinity of railway lines were guilty of a certain amount of negligence was expressed by Air. F. K. Hunt, S.M., coroner, at an adjourned inquest concerning the death of a child of three years, Samuel Peter Hudson, who was knocked down by the engine of- a suburban train near Henderson railway station on tbe afternoon of Alarch 6. The fireman of the locomotive said that as (he train approached the Henderson station he saw two children on a back shunt line. Deceased suddenly ran toward the main line when the engine was about a chain away, and there was no time to pull up. “1 cannot hold either the driver or the lirciuan blameworthy on the evidence.” said the coroner. "Children should not be allowed to play on n railway line.”
A verdict of accidental death was returned.
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 148, 19 March 1931, Page 11
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