An expert on steam trains, Les Labuschagne will continue with his testimony today in the re-opened inquest into the death of former African National Congress ANC president, Chief Albert Luthuli in the Pietermaritzburg High Court in KwaZulu-Natal.
Yesterday, Labuschagne poked holes in the statement of the train driver, Stephanus Albertus Lategan in the first inquest in 1967.
That inquest found that Luthuli was accidentally hit by a train. Labuschagne helped to reconstruct the crash.
He says the fact that Lategan was allowed to continue driving the train after the accident proves that Luthuli was not hit by a train.
Labuschagne told the court he believes Luthuli was already lying by the railway track when the train approached.