BUS TRAGEDY
THREE LIVES LOST. (Australian Press Association) (Received this day at 8 a.m.) SYDNEY, September 7. A collision between two heavily loaded omnibuses at Rockdale to-night was responsible for three deaths. John Roberts aged 48, H. W. Parr aged 32, residents of Bexley, and Mrs Lillian Sloan© aged .35, of 'Oatley. There were also forty injured, sever-n al seriously. The vehicles were conveying holidaymakers homeward from the beaches and collided, causing a terrific roar, at a busy intersection in the vicinity of Rockdale railway station.
The cries of the injured and alarmed women and children were heart-rend-ing, and - brought crowds of willing helpers who. feared the buses might catch afire, in which case there would have been a-heavy death roll.
The task was difficult and distressing in the extreme, as the buses were completely wrecked and broken, glass everywhere.
One child was trampled upon in/the stampede of frantic passengers to reach safety. -
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 October 1930, Page 6
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153BUS TRAGEDY Hokitika Guardian, 7 October 1930, Page 6
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