TRAIN DRIVER COMMITTED FOR TRIAL
PASSED SIGNAL WITHOUT SEEING THEM BLACK-OUT COLLISION IN ENGLAND. LONDON, Oct. 30. The jury committed for trial on a charge of manslaughter Cyril Haynes, driver of the leading engine involved in the Bretchley collision on October 13, when, in the midst of a black-out which increased the confusion, the second section of the Scots express collided with the first half standing at a platform at. Bretchley station while a light, engine was shunting a coach on lo the rear of the first section. At the inquest on the victims accused admitted passing four signals before Bretchley without seeing them.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 258, 1 November 1939, Page 7
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