CROSSING TRAGEDY
KEEPER KILLED AN UNUSUAL ACCIDENT (Per Press Association.) i 'll KIsTCH I'Kcli, i Ins day. While endeavoring to keep back a motor cyclist yesterday from crossing a railway when the electric, train I'roin Lyttelton was approaching, Arthur William Bright, -12. a married man with six children, was himself struck by the train, run over and killed instantly. The body was carried on about 70 yards and terribly mtit ilated, Bright was a one-armed ex-service-man and was crossing keeper at Waltham road, the scene of many accidents, lit' hnd been tit the crossing for several months and had previously been employed at others. The electric, trains are more silent than steam and approach this crossing nt about 15 miles tin hour.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17233, 12 April 1930, Page 20
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122CROSSING TRAGEDY Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17233, 12 April 1930, Page 20
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