CAPSIZE OP A MOTOR-BUS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18345, 10 March 1923, Page 10

CAPSIZE OP A MOTOR-BUS.

THE OTIRA ROAD MISHAP. Further details have come to hand of the serious accident which occurred ' on Tuesday evening on the Otira Boad, when a motor-bus, carrying 14 passengers, by some means left the road, and turned completely over. Tho following were the passengers: — Mr. and Mrs. O. A. Perry and child, Miss Mandl, Mrs. Pickett, Mr. R. Perham. Mr. J. A. Murdoch, Mr. W. Farrar, p Mr. and Mrs. Fraser, Mr. Mann, Mr. Barraclough, Misu Pickett, , and Mr. Clements, driver. All went well until half a mile from Aicken's, where the bus gradually left the road, and eventually toppled over, falling about 6ft. or 7ft., then turning over. Strange to say, all the Hokitika people escaped with Blight shock except the driver, who received some abrasions on the face, presumably from broken glass from the front screen. Mr. and Mrs. Fraser were more unfortunate than the other passengers. The former is believed to be injured internally, while Mrs. Fraser has one of her legs broken. Miss Pickett was the only one to be pinned under the bus, and»it was only after the assistance of those in a passing motor-car was obtained that the young ladv could be extricated from her painful position. Her leg was badly bruised. Mr. Murdoch immediately sought medical aid, and the services of the Otira doctor, who arrived by special motor-car, were obtained. Afj,er the sufferers had been attended to by the doctor, many willing helpers assisted to bring them to the Aicken s station, where the Otira express was delayed to take the injured and other passengers on to Greymouth. The ladies who wers injured displayed a courageous spirit, as also did the male passengers. Mr and Mrs. Fraser were conveyed to the van in stretchers, and on arrival in Grej mouth were immediately conveyed in the ambulance to the hospital.