FATAL RAILWAY SMASH
GOODS TRAIN STRIKES JIGGER ONE KILLED; ANOTHER INJURED By Telegraph.—Frees Association. Timaru, Last Night. A fatal accident occurred on the railway here to-night about a .mile from the town, when a goods train travelling north ran into a railway jigger on which David Maxwell, a railway surfaceman, was returning home from his day's work, and David Rennett, a freezing works employee, who was riding as a passenger. The accident happened shortly after 5 p.m. It is presumed that it was caused through the railway time-table having been altered this week, Maxwell forgetting that the line was not clear and his view of the train being obscured by a cutting. The driver of the train applied the emergency brakes but was unable to prevent a collision.
‘ Maxwell suffered a compound fracture of his left leg and left arm, as well as concussion, and subsequently died in the hospital. Rennett suffered a broken elbow' and was severely bruised about the head, but it is not expected that his injuries will be fatal.
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Taranaki Daily News, 9 December 1926, Page 11
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