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Surname
JOPLING
Forename
Joseph
Day
05
Month
05
Year
1904
Age
Occupation
Joiner
Mine/Quarry Name
Ouston
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Charles Perkins & Ptrs
Location
Ouston
County
Durham
Details of Event
Deceased who was not employed by the colliery company was riding on the hinder end of a rolley drawn by a pair of horses along a public road which crosses the colliery railway by a level crossing. The driver of the rolley failed to see that some wagons were crossing the road and his rolley was caught by them and his horses jumped forward and deceased fell off and was run over by three of the wagons. The crossing has been in use 80 years.