CRASH AVERTED
DRIVER’S KEEN EYESIGHT. CULVERT SUBSIDES. [Special to “Northern Advocate”! AUCKLAND, This Day. Keen observation on the part of a bus driver, Mr T. Halliday, prevented a heavy bus owned by the Birkenhead Transport Company from crashing into a about 30 feet deep and 30 feet wide on the Birkdale Road, near Beach Haven, as down broke this morning. With four passengers in his bus, Mr Halliday was travelling down the road to pick up more passengers to connect with an early ferry. The lights were full on. The road is narrow at the point where the subsidence was covered, and an old bridge leads over the culvert.
Within a few feet of the gaping hole the driver brought the bus to a sudden halt. Had he not seen the hole the bus would have crashed into it and the passengers and driver might have been killed. The bus could not pass the hole, but it travelled over another route to the ferry.
A gang of workmen from the Birkenhead borough staff started work on the damage this morning, but the council have not yet decided what steps they will take to repair the roadway. Either an new culvert will have to be built or a new bridge will have to be erected. It will be some time before the road is passable again.
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Northern Advocate, 25 July 1935, Page 2
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225CRASH AVERTED Northern Advocate, 25 July 1935, Page 2
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