BUS ACCIDENT.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 August 1926, Page 2

BUS ACCIDENT.

SEVERAL HURT. [BY TELEGKArn - TER PRESS ASSOCIATION. ] AUCKLAND, August 4. A steel girder on board a trailer colI’dod with a bus run by the Farmers’ Trading Coy and smashed through the windscreen. It severely injured four passengers. All had to be removed to the hospital.. The casualty list included Mrs Bentha Marshall, of Napier Street, who was treated in the Casualty Ward of the Hospital, and afterwards taken home; Mrs Pinaster, of the staff of tlie Captain Cook Hotel, and Mrs Maitland, of Alpha Road, both of whom were admitted to the hospital suffering from severe abrasions. The fourth injured passenger was able to go home. The accident was caused through tho girder being swung across the street in front of the bus, which was running in the service of the Farmers’ Trading Coy. and an immediate crash resulted in the girder smashing through the windscreen and the passengers’ compartment of the bus. At the point in Albert Street where tho accident occurred, a number of motor cars were parked on. a parking area in the middle of the road, to some extent obscuring part of the street from the view of the bus. The girder was loaded on the trailer, and it was being towed by a lorry for use in a building in the course of erection. During the approach of the bus, the lorry was proparing to back across the road to deliver the girder. As the girder was a big one, its end swung round quickly and the bus collided heavily with it. 'Die bus was crowded with community singers from the Town Hall, who were being taken to a lunch at the Farmers’ Trading Coy. Several of the uninjured passengers escaped being struck by the girder, and the driver was missed by a matter of inches.