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Criminal Law keyed to Dripps
Regina v. Benge and Another
Citation:
4 F. & F. 504, 176 Eng.Rep. 665.Facts
Benge was the foreman of a crew charged with repairing rails on a certain portion of track. Benge had a book listing times that trains were due, but he looked at the wrong date and ordered rails to be removed from a bridge. The crew sent out a flagman to signal if any train were to approach. The flagman only went 540 yards, rather than the recommended 1000 yards out from the construction zone. The train that was due to travel that line approached shortly thereafter. The engineer was inattentive and did not see the flagman in time to stop, causing the train to crash and kill a number of people.
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