RAIL SMASHES.
HUMAN ELEMENT SOMETIMES FAILS TEMPORARY LAPSE BY MEN CAUSE DISASTERS United Press Assn by El. Tel. Copyrlcbl (Australian Press Assn.) LONDON. Oct. 28. _ Air J. H, Thomas, addressing railway men at Norwich, said that it was useless burking the fact that the recent accidents revealed that the human element sometimes fails. A temporary lapse by a- man was the direct cause of accidents. There had been an unprecedented number oi miilway disasters, and it. was madness to disguise the seriousness of the position. Tliere was much public apprehension, yet statistics showed that the British railways were the freest from accidents in the world. Every week There were more killed on the roads than in combine drailway accidents for the whole year.
‘'Making all allowances for temporary lapses”, he added, “do riot let us get into a panic and condemn the ruihvaymen and managements wholesale. It appears that the railways have struck a bad patch.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10730, 30 October 1928, Page 6
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