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A second train driver charged over a runaway train crash which left a man seriously injured has had the charge against him dropped.
Nine wagons became detached from a locomotive at a siding in Waingawa, south of Masterton in July 2005.
They rolled 14km colliding with newspaper delivery driver Steven Geange's utility vehicle at a railway crossing monitored by a stop sign.
Mr Geange suffered severe brain injury, internal bleeding and fractures to his skull and back.
Steven Clay McIvor, 42, and Daniel Alois Greene, 51, employees of Toll New Zealand, later pleaded not guilty to failing to correctly apply brakes to the wagons knowing action was likely to cause death or serious injury.
The charge against Greene was dropped after a five-day hearing in Wellington District Court in November last year.
And in the same court yesterday McIvor was cleared.
- NZPA
