Costly Crossings.
A Woman s View.
QUR LEVEL CROSSINGS are red with human wreckage. Time after time it is the women, muffled in their coats in the back seat, who are the innocent victims. A day’s outing, a friendly visit to a friend, a little shopping, a pleasant ride homewards and then suddenly out of the evening mists calamity descends. A happy day that ends in tragedy. This is too, too often the brief, swift end of many lives. Is life so cheap that we can still afford to leave these death traps insufficiently guarded? It is too tragic that a mistaken signal or a slight error of judgment should spell disaster for those who have no power to avert the sudden death. In other countries they use gates that are closed or automatic arms that come down at the approach of a train. Costly? Well, it’s money or life. B.E.S.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19098, 17 June 1930, Page 8
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151Costly Crossings. Star (Christchurch), Issue 19098, 17 June 1930, Page 8
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