BUS LEAVES ROAD

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 234, 1 September 1938, Page 14

BUS LEAVES ROAD

OCCUPANTS UNINJURED. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Aug. ill. Nino passengers and the driver ora large passenger bus had a fortunate escape from injury when the vehicle left the concrete road at Mount \\ ellington shortly alter 0.00, to-nig , and came to rest in a deep _ course alongside an adjoining fence. The solid structure of the bodywork of the bus withstood the shock as it crashed into the fence and, exc p a shaking, none of the occupants su fered any ill effects. TT The bus was being driven by Mi lb Jackson on its regular run f ro, n ™ city to Otalmhu. via Ellerslie. M hen about 100 yards south of Hamhn s coiner on the Mount Wellington 1 gh way the front right-hand tyre. blew out and the vehicle, winch weighs about six tons,, swerved suddenly to tne right It ran across a grass verge which slopes to a deep, °P e » course about 6ft. below the road deveh Fortunately, the bus wheels did n lose grip of the roadside surface until it entered the water course, and as the vehicle tilted over the hedge andfence staved its course and it came to rest at an angle of about 4o degrees.