COACHING ACCIDENT.
A PERILOUS EXPERIENCE. PRESS ASSOCIATION Nelson, last night, Tho Nelson-Blenheim coach, which left here this morning, met with a mishap crossing Collin’s river ford, near Wangamoa Accommodation House. As the coach entered the ford an accumulation of debris came down with a wave, the river rising suddenly about four feet. The coach was carried to the edge of the ford, below which is a deep hole. Tho driver, seeing the danger, held his horses, and Sergeant Major Redmond got out at the back of the coach with a line, which he made fast, and the other passengers—Mr Walter Hill, Mr O’Brien, Mrs Colt and infant —got to the bank safely. The leaders were next liberated, and they escaped, but directly an effort was made to move the coach it was carried over, the driver, George Newman, going with it; but he managed to get ashore lower down, much bruised.
Tho coach went down stream and was broken to pieces, and both shatters were drowned.
The passengers’ luggage and mails were lost save a hamper of parcels passengers has just brought back from town.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1924, 6 November 1906, Page 2
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185COACHING ACCIDENT. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1924, 6 November 1906, Page 2
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