ANOTHER TRAIN ACCIDENT.
The case heard in the Whangarei Court yesterday had an almost exact parallel at Ohakune on Monday. A man named George Owen made an attempt to board the main trunk express when it was just moving away from the Ohakune platform. Railway officials tried to stop him, but he succeeded in grasping the carriage handrail. He was not, howe.er, able to board tho platform of the moving train, and he slipped between the train and the platform.
The guard, Dan Meyers, with great presence of mind, reached him and caught him as he fell, holding him up so that he was not- dragged right V'Tidcr the train. Meyers ran alongside the train, supporting the man at considerable danger to himself, shouting, meanwhile, for some, one to turn the tap of th e emergency brake in the guard's van. A railwayman answered Meyers' call, and stopped the train, enabling the guard to drag his man free. Owen was fined yesterday at the Ohakune Court for boarding a train while in motion.
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Northern Advocate, 3 May 1916, Page 4
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173ANOTHER TRAIN ACCIDENT. Northern Advocate, 3 May 1916, Page 4
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