FAILURE OF BRAKES
FATAL TRAM ACCIDENT
EVIDENCE OF DRIVER
(Per Press Association.) DUNEDIN, this day
The case in which Alfred Chapman, a tram driver, is charged with manslaughter as a sequel to the fatal accident- on the Opoho tram line, was resumed in the. Supreme Court to-day. The defence called the accused who deposed that the magnetic brake had failed and also tho hand brake, and that the car left the line as Jio was ill the process of applying the third emergency brake. _ , Other niotormen gave evidence of the occasional partial or complete magnetic brake failures in their experience.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19340, 2 June 1937, Page 15
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100FAILURE OF BRAKES Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19340, 2 June 1937, Page 15
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