MOTOR-BUS SMASH.
<- A motor-bus smash - of, an 1 extraordinary character, resulting in injuries to five _passonesrs, occurred near ■ Hackney Downs Station. ,No fewer . than:.threer buses came into collision, with disastrous 'results. The accident appears • to- have had: itsbeginning in the skidding of a London General bus while the driver was attempting to pass a van at the corner of, Pembury :,Koad,,and Dalston Lane. The rood . was ■ greasy, after heavy rain, and the bus.skidded towards , the opposite pavement. Another ;bus, coming in the opposite direction! caino oh the scene just at' the moment that the first bus skidded," r and before the driver had time to pnllVup." a'. : collision took place. A "third- bus.followiug:,behind one of; the other two so-close, that'it; could' not bo pulled up m tuooi-and.'ran into the- others; ..'For several 'rn'o'iuent4''there J -was .'a-scene, of indescribable confusion.. . Tho three buses were lying half on'tho road and half on the pavemeit.' f not -many, passengers, for-' tunately, 'in any : of' tho buses, arid tho • five who were injured suffered ohiefly from shock and. liniisoa.—'"Standard of Empire "'
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 676, 29 November 1909, Page 8
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177MOTOR-BUS SMASH. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 676, 29 November 1909, Page 8
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