OUT OF CONTROL.
DRIVER FALLS OFF TRAIN. SERIOUS ACCIDENT AVERTED. By Telepra.ph—Press Association—Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. MELBOURNE, August 21. An electric train from the Flinders Street station, loaded with passengers, got out of control after leaving Moor* abbin and dashed Through the stations at Highette and Cheltenham, attaining a speed of fifty miles an hour before the guard wac able to apply the brakes. It was discovered that the driver was missing and he was found later on the line between Moorabbin and Highette dead, with a fractured skull. Apparently he liad fallen from the engine.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16818, 22 August 1922, Page 5
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