BUS DAMAGED.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18892, 6 January 1927, Page 6

BUS DAMAGED.

♦ . , CRASH WITH TRAM. PASSENGERS INJURED* . [THE FRBSS Special Serrlc*,] AUCKLAND, January j. When tho Brown's Bay bus was „ ing down Belmont Hill this aornin. (he off front tyre blew out, and u bus swerved on to the tram line. Jn.» behind was ;i tramear going in «, same direction.

The driver of the tram, b/ew W. whistle when the bus made its ecteabj! swerve across the roadway his best to pull up when he satr v notice was taken of his signal, but then ' was too much way on, and the ttan cinshed into the rear of the bus, t*ti, iug out tho right hand corner comply.

A fair number of passenger! wtt on the bus, and the marvel is that wan of them were not killed.

The shock of tho impact sent tbi bus driver, Hardaker, Hying, but, naeh to the surprise and admiration cf onlookers, he was on hi* fact la M h< stant, and hopping on to tho bat ogitt' while it. was still in motion, he tenaj. Ed the wheel. Some of the pauesgtti say it was almost incredible that kt should jump np \nto his seat ipfcj after being thrown to the ground Witt; such violence.

One young man, who was a pauiagif ■ on the "bus, got rather a naaty blowlfti tho back, and was attended to by St,' Alexander in a neighbouring prlvm residence to which he was contreyaj,' The doctor found a dislocated «oHir. bone, which he reset. , '■ One of the ladies on the bug wu also struck, but was able to cOttHaw her journey. Constable Wood, of TakapunA, wb quickly on the scene, helping wUh thl,injured man, and assisting in gettfc* , the very much damaged vehicle ont'tf the way of the trams. '