DANGER SIGNAL WAS HOISTED.
CAULFIELD SMASH INQUIRY OPENS. By Telegraph. —Pre»js Assn.—Copyright Aus. and N.Z. Cable Association. MELBOURNE, June 22. The inquest in the Caulfield railway smash, when two electric trains collided and three people were killed and sixty injured, has commenced. George Rogers, train-running officer, whose duty it is to exercise supervision over the electric-steam trains in the metropolitan district, gave evidence that he was on the platform at Caulfield at the time of the accident, and was almost opposite to where the collision occurred. Three seconds after the smash he looked at the signals and saw six white tell-tale lights, indicating that the signals were set at “ Danger.” There was no mist, fog or rain at the time, and he had no difficulty in observing the signals.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17880, 23 June 1926, Page 10
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