OVER THE BANK

Hokitika Guardian, 18 June 1932, Page 5

OVER THE BANK

LADEN CAR’S ACCIDENT. SCOTTY FRASER. UNHURT. A serious l accident befel one of the Denniston Motor Company’s buses last evening when it wa bringing a party of Denniston Soccer players to Greymonth. There were fourteen aboard. When about two miles on the Greymouth side of Westport, on the Coast Road, tho bps struck a. pot-hole, breaking its front spring, and crashed over the bank, flinging the occupants in all directions into the scrub.. The ’bus was badly smashed but the passengers escaped serious injury, although the driver, Air J. Caldwell, suffered an injury to his leg, and two others had their legs slightly hurt. Another ’bus had to be procured from Gibbs’ Motors to bring .the passengers on, and they arrived in Greyniouth at 1J...30 o’clock, having been six hours on the road instead of approximately three and a-half hours. Fortunately, none of tho Socoer players was incapacitated by the accident, and all will be able to take part in' their match. Mr Scotty Fraser, the well-known parachutist, was also a passenger in the bus, but be came out of the accident scatlrless, and to-morrow will make two parachute descents at tika