STRUCK BY GIRDER

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 5 August 1926, Page 5

STRUCK BY GIRDER

ACCIDENT TO BUS.

FOUR PEOPLE HURT

BUT NONE SERIOUSLY

(BY TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION.) AUCKLAND, Aug. 4.

A steel girder, being on: board a trailer, collided with a bus run- by the Farmers’ Trading Company. It smashed through a windscreen, severely injuring four passengers. All were removed to hospital.

The casualty list included: Airs Bertha Marshal, of Napier street, who was treated in the casualty ward of the hospital and afterwards taken, home.

Airs Phinister, of the -staff of the Captain- Cook Hotel, ‘ and Airs- Maitland, of Alpha- road, both of whom were admitted to the hospital sufferingfrom severe abrasions.

The fourth injured passenger was able- to go home. The- accident was caused through the girder being swung across the street in front of the bus. and an immediate crash resulted in t-lie- girder smashing through the windscreen and the passengers’ com p art ment. At the point in Albert street where tlie accident occurred a number of motor ears were parked on l the parking area in the middle of the road, to some extent obscuring part of the street from the view of the bus. During the approach of tlie -bus the lorry was preparing to back across the road to -deliver the girder. As the girder was a big one, its end swung round quickly and the bus collided: heavily with it. The- bus was crowded with community singers from tlie Town Ball, wlio were being taken to lunch at the Farmers’ Trading Company. Several of the uninjured passengers narrowly escaped being struck by the girder, and the driver was missed by a matter of inches.