COACH ACCIDENT.
A BOLT AND A RUNAWAY
ONE HORSE KILLED.
[press association.]
TAURANGA, Nov. 25. When the Rotorua five-horse mail coach, having delivered the mails on Saturday, was going to the stables one of the leaders got over the traces and started kicking, and the whole team took fright and bolted. The coach struck two telegraph posts without sustaining much damage, but a collision with a third poat fairly wrecked the coach, and . the impact threw the driver ". and another man into the road, both being much cut about. : ■"■■•' '■■:'■ !
The horses were freed'in the collision, and one of them: attempted to jump a buggy and pair stanlipg near, but fell and died a' iew'njihutes later. The impact of the coach was such that it shifted the telegraph pole two inches.
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Marlborough Express, Volume XLVI, Issue 280, 25 November 1912, Page 5
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130COACH ACCIDENT. Marlborough Express, Volume XLVI, Issue 280, 25 November 1912, Page 5
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