VEHICLES IN COLLISION.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 136, 9 May 1928, Page 6

VEHICLES IN COLLISION.

BUS AND MOTOR CAR. FOUR PASSENGERS INJURED. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, May 8. A collision between a bus bound for Te Papapa containing .a full load of about 20 passengers and a car driven by Mr G. D. Hopkins with one passenger occurred at the intersection of Whetuarangi Road and Greenlane at 5.15 to-night. Tho vehicles struck .at right angles. The bus capsized throwing the driver. Henry Day, clear. The top of the bus had to be torn clear to extricate the passengers, . mostly women and children. Four women were fairly seriously injured, their names, being as follow: Mrs Elizabeth Sullivan, broken nose and cuts on the face. Mrs Elsie Gavin, shock and injuries. The patient is to be X-rayed to ascertain the full extent of injuries. Mrs Julia Geraghty, injuries to head, the full extent of which is not known until an X-ray examination is made. Miss O. E. Thompson, shook and internal injuries. All four women belong to Te Papapa district. . . } Mr Hopkins, the driver of the car, escaped with a cut on the forehead and his passenger was uninjured. Tho inability of the passengers to get out of the bus caused great confusion and there was a state of panic until an emergency door at the back was opened. However, it was not until the top of the bus was wrenched off that all the passengers could be released and the injured persons taken to hospital.