FOURTEEN KILLED
TRAIN HITS BUS IN N.S.W.
SYDNEY, January 20. Fourteen persons were killed, one died in hospital, and five were critically injured when an "-express bound from Sydney to Kempsey crashed into a bus at a level-crossing near the Hawkesbury River station this morning. The accident was the worst of, its kind in New South Wales for 20 years. The bus was cut in halves and smashed to matchwood. One section, with several bodies, was carried several hundred yards by the locomotive, the tender of which was derailed 'by the wreckage." The dead and injured were strewn along the track.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 17, 21 January 1944, Page 5
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