TOURIST BUS HITS BRIDGE
(New Zealand Press Association) DUNEDIN, November 6. A Tiki Coach Tour bus carrying 35 people was saved from plunging more than 50 feet into the Makarora River about noon today when it struck a one-way concrete bridge on the Haast Highway.
Eleven passengers were taken to Cromwell Hospital with minor injuries, and four were admitted for observation, and are in satisfactory condition. Their injuries are not serious. Their names were not available tonight.
stayed tonight in Wanaka and Cromwell. Most are middle-aged Australian tourists.
The bus was stopped from tumbling over a steep cliff into the river by the bridge abutment and an embankment. Had the bus not hit the bridge, many of the occupants would undoubtedly have been killed or seriously injured, Constable R. Woodley said tonight. A mechanical fault, believed to be a jammed brake, caused the bus to leave the crown of the road as it approached the bridge. The driver, Malcolm Macfarlane Wallace, aged 46, of Christchurch, was . not injured. The bus had left Queenstown for Franz Josef this morning. Fourteen of the tourists were taken on to Franz Josef by another tourist bus this afternoon. The other 16
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33067, 7 November 1972, Page 1
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