PASSENGERS ESCAPE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 110, 12 May 1930, Page 8

PASSENGERS ESCAPE.

! BUS STRIKES VERANDAH POST. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) HAMILTON, Sunday. As a.service bus filled with passengers, was. moving off last evening •it failed ■to clear the verandah • of Mr. E. A. Fitzgerald's grocer's shop at the corner of Norton Road and "Rostrevor Street, Frankton. The bus, owned by Buses, Limited, carried away a post, and the verandah sagged clown in the middle until it touched the pavement. . The bus escaped damage. The shop is owned by Mr. L. Hickey, butcher, of Frankton.

DRAGGED FROM DANGER.

WOMAN FALLS FROM PLATFORM.

(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.)

PALMERSTON NORTH, Sunday.

While a large number of people were rushing to catch the New Plymouth express yesterday afternoon, a woman missed her footing as she was climbing into a carriage and fell between the edge of the platform and the moving wheels. Two young men rushed forward and dragged her from her perilous position, just as a projecting end of a carriage swept by. Had she been struck she would probably have been hurled, under the train.

The woman, whose, identity i s un known, suffered from severe shock.