COLLISION WITH TRAIN
SURFACEMAN’S DEATH EVIDENCE' AT INQUEST (Per Press Association.) NAPIER, this day. A verdict that Fred White, a railway surfaceman who succumbed to injuries in Napier Hospital, died from shock and haemorrhage caused by a collision between a velocipede he was propelling and a special train near Pakipaki on February 14, and that no blame was attachable to the railway staff, was returned at the inquest yesterday. The evidence disclosed that a copy of the train advice regarding special trains between Napier and Woodville was placed in the surfaceman’s box at Poukawa. This advice was subsequently found in the box.
James MacDonald, stationmaster at Napier, said it was the duty of all gangers and surfacemen to examine their boxes before leaving the home station, and everything possible was done to see that the persons concerned should receive advice of special trains. “For some unknown reason, it appears that the deceased neglected to clear his box before proceeding to work. Therefore, he had no knowledge that the special train which struck him was running,” said the witness. White, said the witness, in answer to a' question, had a similar, though not serious accident in 1920.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18336, 2 March 1934, Page 7
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196COLLISION WITH TRAIN Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18336, 2 March 1934, Page 7
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