ACCIDENT TO PAEROA MAIL COACH.

Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 78, 29 November 1884, Page 2

ACCIDENT TO PAEROA MAIL COACH.

On Monday last, an acci-lenfc of a serious n ituro occurred at t!)t? foot of the Gorge •on the road to Pacroa. It appears that Messrs Bradley anl Co. on the day re- ' f erred to despatched their driver (Alf. Rowe* with Thames mail shortly after 7 ii.Pi r the 'conveyance use I Iwini* a light four-wheel trap, lately purchased for this traffic, ami known us a Gothland Wa,jftfon, to wnioh weie .iLtacbed a pair of smart bay horse 9. There was only one passenger* All went well until that part or the ro-u'l was reached that lies ri«jfht at the. t foot of the Gorge close by *Alr'Brown J R;(faHiier)'houBe» Here there ;i-; a.verjr t'iri|, in a place where the road i.« A'vkly some 10 feet wide j on,

"Ie left-hatvl silo stands a high bint, vhilsb on t io opposite there is an aim wt •Kvpoirlicu'ar drop «F sbra? ten or twelve f-Mt on to the-bed of the creek There i no prof ec. ion whatever, no bnnk, or nil. It. appears just as the vehicle '"inie round this corner one of the horses -iiiidonly allied at somp object, and before the driver had tima to mike an effort of nny kind to avoid au accident, owing to f.iie extreme narrowness of the road, the .whole turn out wont over the hank, the fvvo occupants being pitched right across the creek bed. One horse was killed •irH the waggon considerably Hnmaged, hut. tlie driver and passenger liad a suiraculous escape. Mr J. 8. Buckland coming up at the time took on the mails to Paeroo, and wired Mr Bradley of what had occurred. The loci's a heavy me f.)r tlie firm, the liorse killed bein<ir a valuable young ooaeli horse. Surely Tie Thame County Council will at once '•aye the load widened, and a protecting fence of some kind erected at this dangerous pi ice, and not w-.iit for another j-ccident to first occur. Several alterai ions are nee led at this part of the i\>ad t) make it more safe fo»- tnffic.