ANOTHER CRASH

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XXXVII, Issue 9204, 31 March 1938, Page 3

ANOTHER CRASH

SECOND RAILWAY FATALITY FIREMAN KILLED HEAD-ON COLLISION By Telegraph—Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, this hay. The second fatal railway crash in the Dominion in under a week occurred at Aylesbury, on the West Coast line, at 5.3 0 a.m. yesterday. A head-on collision between a goods train from Christchurch and a mixed train from the West Coast resulted in the death of the fireman on the Coast train, Mr Alfred Bailey, aged 34, of Christchurch. Mr Bailey, seeing that a collision was imminent, jumped from the engine, but before ho could regain his balance and race clear the postal and luggage van, which left the rails, crashed down the bank and on to him.

There were eight passengers in the carriage of the mixed train, which was directly behind the engine. All were fortunate, for, apart from one woman, who was somewhat bruised, there were no injuries. The cause of the accident, which occurred about 22 miles from Christchurch, is as yet vague, but it is unedrstood that the train from Christchurch was either stationary or was starting at the time of the impact.