BUS ACCIDENT

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 21, 25 January 1929, Page 10

BUS ACCIDENT

MIRACULOUS ESCAPE

{iiy Telegraph.—Press Association.)

GISBORNE, This Day. Undeterred by the- accident, the Frivolity Ministrels will perform at Gisborno to-night, advice to that effect having been received from the secretary..

A message from Opotiki states that the bus with fourteen men passengers lft the road a mile and a half up the Meremero Hill and fell 140 feet into the gully 30 feet past an easy bend. Apparently the steering locked,- and forced the bus to the edge of the road. As it rolled over the top was ripped off and the passengers fell out in all directions, and were clear before it reached tho bottom.

One of the passengers caught hold of a tree after falling sixty feet, and held on until he was rescued.

It was .a miracle that some of the party were not killed, as the bank was almost perpendicular.

A doctor, the police, and others arrived on the scene. The doctor was engaged for about an hour attending.to the injured. The most-seriously injured wero placed .in cars and sent to the Opotiki Hospital, the rest continuing the journey to Gisborne in other cars.

Those in hospital are:—.Ralph Hankins, the driver, chest, injury; Reginald Abbott, serious neck injury; Jock O'Donohe, head injury; "William Wilkie, head injury, Ronald M'.Kenzie, shock and abrasions; George Streggall, head injury.

Nine of the others were slightly injured. . ■