MIRACULOUS ESCAPES WHEN BUS OVERTURN

Chronicle (Levin), 17 January 1949, Page 5

MIRACULOUS ESCAPES WHEN BUS OVERTURN

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AUCKLAND, Jan. 16. Only one of 39 passengers in a biiV Whieh left the road and overturned iiear Laihghohn • on Saturday evening.received injuries serious enough to oe tfeated _iu hospital, Thick tea-tree ,Stopped .tlie vehiele from rollilig fu' ther down a stoep bank. Damage to the bus' was Slight and the driver had a fenlnrkhble ekeape from being seridtlsly huf t. Mrs. Emhia Louise Tunnieliffe, aged 7^, of Laingholm, ■Who was seated neai j the" front of the bUs, received lafeera i tiofls to the sealp and right leg niu1 i concussion. She was disehafged f loi. hospital today, Most of the other pasSehgefS suffered fi'oni bruises and shoek. The' bus, owned by the Transport Bus Services aiid drivefi by Mr. J. T, Poole Was slow-ly elimbing the hill betw«en Woodlands aiid Laingholm ou its. wav frotri the city. Its wheels slipped over the edge of aii embarknieiit aiid after tfaveiling for about its Owii length, the bus rolled Over on its side and crash ed against a stand of tea-tree. Mr. Poole had a narfow escape when a stout feiiee post pierced the rloor of the bus and Stopped within a few inches of his seat. The passengers got cleaf by breaking the back Windows and the jvindow at the ftont, Very- little structurai dairiage atict- no mechanical damage to the vehicle was caused.