Sensational Accident: Bus Crashes Into House
MELBOURNE, May 23. Twenty-one persons were injured, two seriously, when a large tramway bus travelling from Port Melbourne crashed through a brick wall of a twostoreyed apartment house at Carlton, after a collision with a police patrol car to-night. The bus, which was carrying 40 passengers, stopped in one of the rooms t
of the house, a portion of the wall of which was demolished. The bus was little damaged. Senior Constable Murphy, the driver of the police car, suffered broken ribs and leg injuries, and was sent to hospital. The driver of the bus was injured by flying bricks from the house. A woman passenger is believed to have suffered serious internal injuries. The accident occurred at a busy tersegtion in drizzling rain.
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Northern Advocate, 24 May 1939, Page 6
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