KILLED ON RAILWAY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20483, 7 February 1930, Page 10

KILLED ON RAILWAY.

MOTOR-CYCLIST RUN OVER. FATALITY AT CHRISTCHURCH. [BY TELEGRAPH. —TRESS ASSOCIATION.] CHRISTCHURCH. Thursday. A fatal accident occurred on the Waltham Road level crossing, Christchurch, this evening, Mr. Ernest Robert Vyne, aged 24, of Lyttelton, being killed. He was rfding a motor-cycle when he was struck by the electric locomotive on the incoming Lyttelton train. The engine and carriages passed over the body. Deceased was identified by the driver's licence in his pocket. ENGINE STRIKES JIGGER. SURFACEMAN FATALLY INJURED. [BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] DUNEDIN, Thursday. While travelling on a velocipede on the railway track between Pukerangi and Flat Stream, Mr. Alexander Gray, railway surfaceman, was struck by the night goods train running to Cromwell. When picked up he was found to be seriously injured. He was conveyed to the Middlemarch Hospital, where death occurred. Deceased, who was 45 years of age, resided at Flat Stream. Ho was apparently on the way home when the train struck him. An inquest was opened at Middlemarch and evidence of identification taken. INQUIRY INTO GIRL'S DEATH. NO BLAME ON ENGINE CREW. [BS TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION. ] CHRISTCHURCH. Thursday. A verdict that Mary Isabel Clarke, aged 12 years, met her death as a result of being run over by the Parnassus-Christ-church train on January 25, no blame being attached to the railway employees, was returned by tho coroner, Mr. E. D. Mosley, S.M. at an inquest concerning this girl's death held to-day. Tho only witnesses called were Thomas Dick, enginedriver of tho train, and Claude Alfred James Harris, his fireman. Dick said he. whistled three short blasts when approaching tlie crossing. He did not see tho girl, as he was looking out to tljo right hand side. Tho fireman saw her and called on him to stop tho train. He instantly applied the brakes but tho girl was struck. The engine passed over her before it could bo stopped. Harris said the girl ran from the left hand sido on to the track. Clearly she had not heard or seen the train. Probably her view would bo obscured by a corrugated iron fence. Both witnesses agreed that tho crossing was a reasonably open one and not considered dangerous.