SHOCKING COACH ACCIDENT IN ADELAIDE.
fwo Persons Killed.
A terrible coach accident happened on Belair Hill late on Monday night. The employees of Marshall and Co., drapers, had been to a picnic at Coromandel Valley. All thecoacheSjWiththeexception ofthe lastone, reached the city safely. It appears thab the lastone, a five-horse coach, was coming down the hill at a walking pace when the swingletree touched a post aboub two feet from the fence, causing the horses to take fright. The coach collided with the fence and then turned two or three somersaults down the side of the hill and was stopped in its progress by a tree. William Browning, aged 22, employed byG. andß. WeilsandCo., who accompanied his brother Walter, was crushed by the coach and died soon after. The driver, a man named Lambert, aged 32, a widower with two children, sustained a compound fracture on both legs and died on Tuesday. He was an exceedingly steady man, and had been in the employ of Hill and Co. for 15 ov 16 years. There were 35 passengers on the coach, and of those 20 were more or less seriously injured. Miss Lucy Machin, a delicate girl, is in a critical state.
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Auckland Star, Volume XX, Issue 7, 9 January 1889, Page 5
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