CHILDREN HURT WHEN BUS OVERTURNS
TIMARU, July 17. Three children received minor injuries when a service bus ran ofi; the road and overturned on the Kurow-Tekapo main highway on Saturday night. Carrying about 20 children and three adults, the bus was negotiating a diflieult bend and slid down an efiibankment, capsizing slowly ; into a 'swamp. The bus was later destroyed by. fire, some petrol around the vehiele .eatcliiiig aliglit. . Two children, after receiving mediical attentiop on the spot, were admitted to the Timaru Hospital'but a third injured was able to return home. All were living in Tekapo. They were:,Terrv Payne, aged 13, cuts to the f oreh'eaa and leg; Peter Herland, aged 12, cuts to 'the hand.
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Chronicle (Levin), 18 July 1949, Page 3
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