COACH ACCIDENT.
3 l’ltKaS ASSOCIATION. i Napier, last night. , A serious coooh acoident ooourred at a spot about five miles boyond Rissington this raorniog, Tho Puketititora ooaob, drivon by Bamael Lind, - and containing fivo passengers, capsized over a bank, and rolled down for about 12 or 14 feet, being then stopped by a fence. The fiyo horses drawing the coach bolted when going down the hill owing to the swinglotrse breaking. The driver, a very careful whip, did ail in his power to get the borso3 undor control again, but unfortunately in trying io avoid a timber wnggon ooming in the opposition direction, a collisou took place, and the coach went over the bank as reported, Ojo oi thn passengers, Grindel), had bis log broken on the p.evious evening, and ho Bostaiacd severe bruises to his shoulders and other injuries, i Another passenger, named HaaseD, had ' his oollarbouo broken, while a third, uamed J Robert QevensoD, has a badly bruised ] kneo. j The driver sustained severe bruises f about the tmd_body, - -r /
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1950, 5 December 1906, Page 2
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172COACH ACCIDENT. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1950, 5 December 1906, Page 2
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