MURULLA DISASTER.
CORONER’S VERDICT. DRIVER AND GUARD CHARGED WITH MANSLAUGHTER. BY' CABLE PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT. SYDNEY, Oct. 10. The inquest in connection with the Murulla railway disaster has concluded. The coroner found Driver Turner anf Guard Davies of the goods train which crashed.into the mail train both guilty of negligence and committed them fox trial on a charge of manslaughter. In a rider he added that he found there was no automatic coupling pm in the brake van of the goods train. He also found that if such a pin had been in the van and had been used as suggested in the general appendix to instructions, the accident and loss of life would have been avoided. He further found that there is an omission of great importance in the list of guard’s equipment for goods trains given in the general appendix, inasmuch as there is no mention made therein of an automatic coupling pin as part of such equipment. The grave consequence resulting therefrom is that, departmentallv, no person is regarded as culpably responsible for the absence of such a pin and the essential principles of safe working are overlooked.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 11 October 1926, Page 5
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191MURULLA DISASTER. Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 11 October 1926, Page 5
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