CHARFIELD SMASH
DRIVER ON TRIAD.
(Australian Press Association.) (By Cable —Press Assn. —Copyright.)
(Received November 21, 2 p.m.) LONDON, November 20. As a sequel to the Charfield (Gloucester) disaster, Ernest Aldington, engine driver of the express, employed by the Company for thirtyseven years, was charged with the manslaughter of Dorothy Burnell, the only one of the killed definitely tified.The prosecution alleged gross negligence, amounting to recklessness, because it was found all the signals were definitely at danger. Three distance safeguards had been overlooked. The public rightly expected some degree of safety. During a fog, the driver’s duty in the event of signals being invisible, was to reduce speed. Sir H. Curtis Bennett, defending, said that the evidence of the driver and fireman was emphatically that they saw the distant signal was in their favour.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 21 November 1928, Page 6
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