MOTOR BUS CRASHES INTO TELEGRAPH POST.

Shannon News, 18 May 1926, Page 4

MOTOR BUS CRASHES INTO TELEGRAPH POST.

OWE PASSENGER-KILLED. OTHERS INJURED AT AUCKLAND. AUCKLAND, May 17. A bus owned 'by the Rioyal Motor Bus Company, and driven <by Peter Haig, was corning from, Onehunga to the. city and when opposite the Epsom Methodist Church, it struck a telegraph past and was badly damaged. One passenger was killed and two others injured. Lorraine Taylor, aged 33, book-keep-er to A. S. Pa-terson and Company, residing with her sister at Onehunga, watj unconscious when picked up on the road, bleeding from the head., She was put in an ambulance and died shortly after without regaining consciousness.

The) other victims are Eric Can-ham, 21, single, residing at Mangere, and Hiarry Roy, 2-2., assistant secretary to tiiet 'Auckland Power Board. Both are in hospital suffering from shock. Haig states he was driving at 15 to 20 miles an hour on second gear, having just come up the hill. Before striking the pole lie leaned over to adjust one of the screens which was a full arm's' length away and the bus swerved on to the footpath and struck the telegraph post, which ripped the side iof the bus as fa.r as the second seat. He saw two passengers fail from the bus and swerved out to avoid running over them with the back wheels. Haig is regarded by his employers as a -trustworthy driver.