CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER
SEQUEL to CHARFIELD TRAIN SMASH. PROSECUTOR’S ALLEGATIONS. lUnited Pres- A '-o’oti—By Cable Copyright.] [Australian ana N.Z. Press Assn.] (Received 21, 12.40 p.m.) ' London, Nov. 20. As a sequel to the Charfield train disaster, Ernest Addington, the engine-driver of the express, who has been employed by the company for 37 years, has been charged with the manslaughter of Dorothy Burnell, the only one of those killed who was definitely identified. The prosecution alleged gross negligence amounting to recklessness, because it was found that all the signals were definitely at danger, and three distance safeguards had been overlooked. The public, said the Crown, rightly expected some degree of safety during fog. The driver’s duty in the event of signals being invisible was to reduce speed. Sir Henry Curtis-Bennett, defending, said that the evidence of the driver and fireman was emphatically that thev saw that the distant signal was in their favour.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 288, 21 November 1928, Page 5
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