RAILWAY ACCIDENTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15504, 10 January 1914, Page 5 (Supplement)

RAILWAY ACCIDENTS.

THREE MONTHS' COLLISIONS. Dubinq the three, months ending.on June--30 last 234 persons were killed and. 1971 injured in the course of public traffio on, the railways of the United Kingdom. In the corresponding period of 1912 the fatalities numbered 210 and the ca6es of injury 1818. Appended are the details, as supplied to the Board of Trade.:— Passengers'. _ Killed Injured Accidents to trains, etc — 119 Other accidents 17 482 Railway servants: Accidents to trains, etc 1 60 Other accidents 83 1245 Othor persons: At level-crossings ... 19 u Trespassers (including suicides) 106 31 Persons on business at stations ... -. ... 8 33 Totals 231 1971 In addition, 11 railwaymen and five other persons were killed, and 132 passengers. 0525 employees, and 139 other persons were injured on the premises of pailway companies as the result of accidents in which the movement of railway vehicles was not concerned. Altogether, including accidents m which no personal injury was sustained, there ' were reported during the three months 11 collisions between passenger trains .or parts of passenger trains; 10 collisions between passenger trains and goods or mineral trains, light engines, etc; 24 collisions between goods trains, parts of goods trains, light engines, etc; 1 collision between a train and vehicles standing foul of tho line ; 7 collisions between trains and buffer-stops, or vehicles standing against buffer-stops; 16 cases of passenger trains or parts of passenger trains leaving the rails; 43 cases of goods, sta, trains, parts of goods trains, or light engines leaving the rails; 60 cases of trains running through gates at levelcrossings or into other obstructions; and 45 cases of fire in trains or vehicles.