COACH FATALITY
FALL DOWN EMBANKMENT
(Received August 15, 9 a.m.) BRISBANE, This Day. A tourist coach containing twelve passengers overturned and fell down an embankment as it was approaching the tableland outside Cairns today. A man and a woman from Sydney were killed and eight others were serii ously injured. All were from New J South Wales. (Received Augus! 15, 1 p.m.) BRISBANE, This Day. , One of those killed was Mr. Ronald] Joseph Beckley. aged 40, a native of Feilding, New Zealand, who lately had been residing at Manly. Sydney. His mother, Mrs. Alice Beckley, was among the eleven injured. It is believed that the edge of the embankment gave way and the car fell 40 feet. Five persons, including Mr. Beckley, were pinned under the upturned car.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 39, 15 August 1939, Page 9
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128COACH FATALITY Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 39, 15 August 1939, Page 9
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