RUN OVER BY TRAIN
NO BLAME ATTACHABLE
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
CHKISTCHTJKCH, 6th February.
That Mary Isabel Clark, aged 12, met her death as a result of being run over by a Parnassus-Christchurch train on 25th January, no blame being attachable to railway employees, was the finding of the Coroner, Mr. E. D. Mosley, S.M., at the inquest this afternoon. The only witnesses called were Thomas Dick, engine-driver of the train, and Claude Alfred James Harris, his ilre-
Dick stated that he whistled three short blasts approaching tho crossing. He did not see tho girl, as ho was looking out the right-hand side. The fireman saw her and called on him to stop tho train. He instantly applied the brakes, but the girl was struck and the engine passed over her before it could bo stopped. The fireman in evidence stated that the girl ran from the left-hand side on to the track. Clearly she had not hoard or seen the train, probably becauso her view would be obscured by a corrugated iron fence.
Both witnesses agreed the crossing was a reasonably open one and not considered dangerous.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 32, 7 February 1930, Page 10
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