MOTORIST’S ESCAPE.
BULLET THROUGH WINDSCREEN. (Special to the “Guardian.”) CHRISTCHURCH, Alarch 10. Air E. Pateman, driver of the Oxford Rangiora bus, had a nerve-shaking experience about 8 a.m. on Saturday. When on the city side of Kaiapoi, near the deviation of the road, a bullet struck the windscreen, passed between his right arm and his body, and crashed through one of the panes of glass on the right side of the bus, about ten. feet from the driver’s seat. The bullet missed Mr Pateman’s body by less than half an inch. It made a fairly large hole in the windscreen. It may have been fired from a pea-rifle. The place where it struck the windscreen is about 4ft 6in above the ground which makes it difficult to suppose that the person who fired the shot was shooting rabbits. The course followed by the bullet was a diagonal one, but this did not lessen the danger Air Pateman was in. He was not injured. The bus was empty, or almost empty of pa§sengers.^
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 50, Issue 127, 11 March 1930, Page 2
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