COACH ACCIDENT.
(united press association.) Greymouth, February 7. A coach accident happened at Maori Creek
to-day and was very nearly serious. Just after starting the driver found that the reins were wrong and got down to flx them, when the horses bolted. .Not haying to stop.u them, he seized; the-rbrake and held* on for over,, -a i quarter ;s of a mile, but was thrown, the ,coach ; -.going over, his hand. There.were four adults.and two .children in the, coaoh.. . Approaching the Eight Mile Hill Mrs MeKechnie got, out of the eoaeh, but fell on the road, cutting her forehead severely. Mr MeKechnie was injured in the knee in getting out. j His two children then passed out all right. A Chinaman injured his wrist and hand in alighting on the road. A man named Joe Poynton, being young and active, escaped without injury. The horses were finally stopped by running into Blair’s coach at the bottom of the'hill. How they got down without rolling down the side of the precipice is a mystery.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 780, 11 February 1887, Page 1 (Supplement)
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173COACH ACCIDENT. New Zealand Mail, Issue 780, 11 February 1887, Page 1 (Supplement)
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