CRASH OVER PRECIPICE

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 August 1935, Page 5

CRASH OVER PRECIPICE

6 KILLED. 120 INJURED

TURIN. July 2

Six young people ryere killed.' and 120 seriously injured, 13 miles from Asti yesterday, in a motor-coach crasii, The coach and trailey iu which they wore travelling left the rorjd at a bepd f went over a precipipe and turned ovpr. The- coach and trailer were taking abot|t 250 hoys and girls from 12 to jii years of age to a religious festival at a fainons sanctuary. They all took Letties of lemonade, and flying glass caused injuries so serious that the liyps of four children are despaired of, while it is feared ipQny others will also die. Mapio Musso, the young drive;-, is lying in Asti hifirumry, too ill to make a sfaumetit. but guarded by poligempn. The passengers were in high spirits, and all went well until they had passed thp hill town of .Moncalvp 50 miles i'roni "Turin. Tlur ra.id lay through ;i steep decline. The children wer< singing when the driver lost control.

He made desperate efforts to avoid an accident, but at a sharp bond the trailer collided with the motor-coach and both crashed over the edge of the precipice. The shrieks of the children brought men who were motoring hittif a mile ahead of thQm. They obtained help from Asti, and after three hours' work the bodies of six children were taken from the coach. It was then discovered that the worst injuries had been caused by the broken lemonade bottles.

The coach and trailer were borrow ’d from the driver’s father. The latter has rtated lie was told that 90 children were going, hut at the last minute a crowd of others insisted on being taken. and rushed the two vehicles with the help of their parents.