BUS HIT BY TRAIN
A WONDERFUL ESCAPE ALL OCCUPANTS UNHURT Dominion Special. Auckland, October 13. Passengers on a Motor Transport Company’s bus, which was proceeding to Otahuhu last evening, will have cause to remember their trip. When the vehicle was on the level railway crossing at Church Street, Southdown, at about 7.40 p.m , it was struck by a goods train proceeding to Auckland. The bus was full of passengers, and, as one of them said this morning, “If the train had hit us fair on. we would have been mincemeat. Another second and it would have been all over.” At this particular level crossing a double line of railwav tracks is operating. The driver of the bus had pulled up to allow a suburban passensrer train to pass, and was _ just starting off on his journey again when the goods train came from the opposite direction. It hit the forepart of the bus, wrecking it, and turned the vehicle in the direction in which the train was proceeding. At that moment the front of the bus collapsed, and this caused the vehicle to be pulled up. It was then that the passengers and driver alighted unhurt.
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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 16, 14 October 1926, Page 7
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