MOTOR BUS ACCIDENT.
Vehicle Crashes Through
Bridge.
FIVE SERIOUSLY INJURED. (Received 9 a.m.) MELBOURNE, this day. A motor-bus, which was carrying 27 passengers, mostly employees at the Hanro Knitting Mills, crashed through a bridge into the Ironbark Creek, near Bendigo.
The bus caught fire and several passengers were badly burned, and 25 of them were treated in the Bendigo Hospital. Fourteen of the passengers were admitted to the hospital, and five of them are reported to be in a serious condition.
The accident was caused through the failure of the brakes and the bus colliding with the side of the bridge and falling into the gully.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 276, 22 November 1927, Page 7
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