SERIOUS COACH ACCIDENT.
£W6R PRBBB ASSOCIATION.] Ksw Plymouth, September 22. The Bshotn coach, fall of passengers, wu coming down the Omata hill this morning, three miles from town, a very steep place, when one of the wheels went Into a deep rot and oapa'zed the ooaoh The hones bolted with some parts of the vehicle. Browa, a passenger, on the box ■eat, jumped to get dear of the falling eouh, but did not sccoeed, and the ooaoh fell on him. He was seriously Injured In the spine of the back. The other passengers were muoh shaken. The ooaoh li a complete wreck. No blame attaches to the driver. Later. Mr MoOallam, proprietor of the Rshotu eoaob, who was driving, attributes the aeoident to the spokes of the wheels collapsing when In the cat. Bcown it still m great pain. The doctor lays he Is suffering from oonousslon of the spine In the small of the baok.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1951, 22 September 1888, Page 3
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156SERIOUS COACH ACCIDENT. Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1951, 22 September 1888, Page 3
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