THE PIRIPIRI FATALITY.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXVII, Issue 10653, 23 May 1913, Page 8

THE PIRIPIRI FATALITY.

Per Press Association. Dannevirks May 23. Mr S E. McCarthy, coroner, delived this morn in/? bis finding ag the result of the inquest on Boy Horace Dean,' who was killed at Piripiri railway crossing by a collision between a motor car and a train. The coroner found that no bl3ine ■was sttacded to any of the Railway officials controlling the train. He held that the deceased had driven negligently in ir.ainta:3iing a speed of la miles an honr to within three feet' of the rawsing, which could have been noticed eooner had a sharp look oet heen .kept. There was a rider containing io clauses, the chief cf which were —Tl;ac nil stopsignals r-.hoaid be painted red to make them f.how up; the.G until the brinks at the crossing were altered and giv D n a bigger baiter is cculd not reasonably be Raid fc!i;jt eil had been dona to avert accidents. A footbridge was the best; means of minimising accidents.