N.Z.R. Bus Off Road, Capsizes
(New Zealand Press Association) INVERCARGILL, April 9. Eleven people had a lucky escape from serious injury when a 36-seater New Zealand Railway Road Services bus ran off the road on the Te Anau-Milford highway, four miles on the Te Anau side of the Homer tunnel and overturned, about 10.30 a.m. today.
One of the passengers was injured—Mrs Joyce Myrtle Boyd, aged 52, manageress of the Cambridge Hotel, Wellington. She suffered internal injuries, a fractured wrist and lacerations to her forehead but was in a satisfactory condition in Kew Hospital tonight
The accident occurred when the bus, travelling to Milford Sound, was over-taking a Mount Cook and Southern Lakes Tourist Company bus. The N.Z.R. bus fell on its side and came to rest on a bank about five feet down from the road.
“We were only stopped from falling further by the boulder and the trees, the branches of which protruded into the bus,” Mr Boyd said. “The front windows of the bus had to be broken to get my wife out.”
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31340, 10 April 1967, Page 14
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