BUSES COLLIDE
NO ONE SERIOUSLY INJURED (P.A. ) WELLINGTON, Dec. 3. No one was. seriously injured when a railways road service bus, carrying about 26 passengers, turned on its side after being hit by another railways bus at the Waterloo Road and Cornwall Street crossing, Lower Hutt, this afternoon. Four passengers and the driver suffered minor injuries. They were treated at the Hutt hospital and discharged. The bus which turned oyer was travelling down Waterloo Road. Its driver saw the other bus coming toward him at the crossing, and swerved, but his bus was hit hard at the back. It turned over on its side and skidded along, coming to rest lying diagonally on its right side of the road. The driver had helped one passenger out from the vehicle through the door when the driver of the other bus broke through the windscreen and opened it, providing a fairly big escapeway for the passengers.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 66, Issue 46, 4 December 1945, Page 2
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