MOTOR BUS CAPSIZES.
INCIDENT AT PUKETERAKI. OCCUPANTS’ REMARKABLE ESCAPE. BUS SUBSEQUENTLY BURNT. In an effort to avoid a car coming from the opposite direction near Puketeraki on Saturday morning, one of Hope Brothers’ buses skidded in the grass at the side of the road and turned over three times before it finally settled down against the trunk of a tree. Fortunately there were only two people in the bus at the time—the driver and another man —and they escaped unhurt. It is understood that the car belonged to the Seacliff Mental Hospital, and that the occupants were in search of a patient who had escaped The bus was left lying on the roadside, and passers-by yesterday noticed that it had been completely destroyed by fire. It is also reported that everything of a moveable nature about it had been pilfered.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19994, 11 January 1927, Page 10
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