WEDDING PARTY OF NINE KILLED
Head-On Collision After Reception (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) SHEFFIELD, June 3. A wedding party of nine—including the 21-year-old bride and the 22-year-old bridegroom she had married a few hours before—were killed in an i accident outside Sheffield early today. All nine were in a station waggon, which was taking them from a village outside Sheffield into the city after the reception. Speeding through the night the bridal party crashed head-on into a motor-coach bound for London with 33 passengers setting out for holidays on the European Continent. Six persons in the coach, including the driver, were injured, but none were detained in hospital. The bride, Florence Curbishley, still wearing her wedding dress of white brocade, and with her bouquet of red roses clutched in her hand, was found beside the body of her husband. Confetti lay strewn among the dead. In the wreckage were several watches, all of which had stopped at midnight. Villagers, some half dressed, roused by tne crash, tore at the wreckage of the van to extricate the bodies.
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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27986, 5 June 1956, Page 6
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