CHAIN-DRIVE BREAKS
CHARABANC SMASH CRASHES INTO TORRENT MANY CASUALTIES By Cable. —Press Association. — Copyright Received 10.30 a.m. BERLIN, Wednesday. Eight people were killed and 31 injured in a charabanc accident in Lower Silesia. While the vehicle was ascending a steep slope, the driving-chain broke, and running backwards at terrific speed, th'e charabanc crashed into a bridge, and overturning in a rushing torrent buried 28 underneath, crushing some, while others were drowned The driver has not been seen, but it is believed that he escaped across the Czecho-Slovakian border. —Sun.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 2, 24 March 1927, Page 1
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