ENGINE-DRIVER KILLED BY TRUCKS
(P.A.) GREYMOUTH, June 19. Falling between rakes of empty coal trucks during shunting operations at Rapahoe an engine-driver, Mr. Philip Howard (Peter) Betts, 52, single, one of the senior drivers on the locomotive staff of the Railways Department at Greymouth. suffered fatal injuries. He was removed to the Grey Hospital in a serious condition, and succumbed to his injuries about two hours later. These included a fractured pelvis, a fractured arm and scalp wounds. He was the driver of the GreymouthRapahoe goods train, and had left his engine while a rake of 47 coal wagons was being shunted into a siding at the State coal bins. In attempting to return to his engine, which had been brought to the rear of the rake, he apparently slipped in endeavouring to climb between the moving wagons to the driver’s side of the engine. Mr. Betts had been in the employ of the department on the West Coast for over 23 years, apart from a brief period about 1925, when he was temporarily on transfer in the Cross Creek and Gisborne areas.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22669, 21 June 1948, Page 6
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183ENGINE-DRIVER KILLED BY TRUCKS Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22669, 21 June 1948, Page 6
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