MOTOR BUS CAPSIZED.
STRUCK BY TRAMCAR. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, March 29. Early last evening a sensational accident occurred near - the foot of the Khyber Pass road, when a motor bus carrying passengers en route for Onehunga was struck by a tram-car and completely overturned. Three of the bus passengers were injured and were taken to the city hospital. The injured were a middle-aged man named Gouda (injury to a leg), Bertrand Groiggs, a young man (cut on the forearm) and Henry Rudolph Carson a young man residing at Park Avenue, Takapuna (injury to the left shoulder). The doctors did not consider the injuries severe in the cue© of the two Young men, who after treatment were able to leave the hospital. The smash occurred adjacent to where a road is under repair. Evidently the motor bus swerved out of the way of an obstructing lor barrel and in so doing got in front of the tram-car, which was also going down hill. The tram caught, tho bus side on and pitched it across the up-going tram lines, the side of (he motor vehicle being badly smashed. All the passengers in the bus were badly shaken, but none were severely injured.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 101, 30 March 1925, Page 5
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