BUS SMASH IN BRITAIN
Footballer Loses Right Leg LONDON, December 27. A 19-year-old professional footballer lost his right leg when a bus taking the Sheffield Wednesday soccer team home from London last night crashed at Alonbury, Huntingdon. Douglas McMillan, a forward, was trapped by jagged pieces of metal in the wrecked coach. Efforts to free him were unsuccessful. Fire and ambulance men supported him while a surgeon gave him an anaesthetic and amputated his leg. Five members of the team, their trainer, and the bus driver were taken to hospital, but the trainer and two players were released after treatment. This morning McMillan’s condition was described as fair and the other three were said to be “fairly comfortable." A police spokesman said the bus crashed into a telephone pole and went into a ditch as it was rounding a corner. Sheffield has been one of the most successful teams in the English Football League this season. It is in the top six of the first division.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29398, 28 December 1960, Page 9
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