FATAL MOTOR ACCIDENT.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 18 May 1926, Page 5

FATAL MOTOR ACCIDENT.

’BUS COLLIDES WITH POST. ONE PASSENGER KILLED. (BY TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION.) AUCKLAND EAST, MAY 17. A ’bus owned by the Royal. .Motor ’Bus Company, driven by Peter Haig, was coming from Onehunga to the city. When opposite the Epsom Methodist Church it struck a telegraph post and was badly damaged. One passenger was kilted and l two others were injured. Lorine Taylor, aged 33, book-keeper to A., S. Patterson and Co., residing with her sister at Onehunga, was unconscious when picked up on the road. She was bleeding from the head and was put in an ambulance, but died shortly after without regaining consciousness. The other victims weie Eric Canham, aged 21, a single man residing at Mangere, and Harry Roy, aged 22, assistant secretary, ot the Auckland Power Board. Both are in the hospital suffering from shock. Haig stated that he was driving 15 to 20 miles per hour on the second gear, having just come up the hill. Before the impact with the pole lie leaned over to adjust one of the screens which was a full arm’s length away. The ’bus swerved on to the footpath and struck a telegraph post which ripped the side of the’bus as far as the second seat. He saw two passengers fall from the ’bus and swerved out to avoid running over them with the back wheels. Haig was regarded by his employers as a trustworthy driver.