SMASH ON HIKURANGI ROAD
CAR AND BUS COLLIDE
LUCKY ESCAPE' FROM INJURY,
Shortly after two o ’clock on Saturday afternoon a car driven towards Hikurangi by Mr A. Snowden, and a iarge bus belonging to the Northern Motor Bus Company’s fleet, crashed into each other at the first corner on the Whangaroi side of the dairy factory.
The driver of the bus, Mr Olive Ruddell, and the half-dozen passengers, except for one little girl, who bumped her head painfully, escaped without injury.
It was a miraculous let-off, because the back wheels of the bus collapsed, the front axle was forced half-way along the undercarriage, and the front wheels buckled. The bus was pushed right off the road into the mud, with the car lying alongside. The .chassis and the mudguard of the ear were badly bent.
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Northern Advocate, 20 May 1929, Page 6
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