HIT BY BUS.
.. Y.QUTH'S LUCKY ESCAPE. [THE PBESS Special flervloe.J AUCKLAND, January 13, To be knocked down by a cyclist and then run over by a City Council motorbus, was the remarkable experience that bei'ell Leonard Keys, aged 17 years, in . the city yesterday, The aftcident occurred at the busy junetibn of Customs and Fanshaw's Streets' at five o'clock when tho volume of traffic was at'its'height. In trying to avoid the" motor-bus Keys failed to notice the cyclist approaching frOni the direction of the tepid baths. He was"* knOftked down, and before he could rise the bus passed over him. Witnesses of the accident feared that the youth would be very badly hurt, and he was hurried to the Airkland Hospital. However, it was found that his injuries were nothing more serious than abra--1 sions to the thigh, while' ho was also : suffering from shock. The Hospital au--1 thorities reported to-day that his con- > ditiou'was satisfactory.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18899, 14 January 1927, Page 8
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