Three killed in bus crash
NZPA Sydney Two girls, aged 15 and a man, aged 43, died yesterday when a bus loaded with schoolchildren crashed near the south-western New South Wales town of Hay. The girls were in a party of more than 60 Western Australian high school children travelling in two buses on a tour .to Sydney and Canberra. The party was from Busselton, a small country town
about 200 km south of Perth. The police said the dead man was one of the drivers and was from Adelaide* Seven people were taken, to Hay Hospital and all but one have since been discharged. The accident occurred on the Sturt highway in wet and soggy conditions. \ • The wheels of the bus are believed to have slipped into a drain on the soft edge of 1 the road, causing the bus to turn oven , . y
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