BUS SOMERSAULT
AMAZING ESCAPE FROM WRECKAGE. Twenty Manchester Corportion workmen had amazing escapes from death when a corporation bus in which they were being driven to their work crashed down an embankment and turned a complete somersault. Sixteen men were taken to the Manchester Royal Infirmary and six were detained, one being seriously injured. The men were on their way to a corporation building scheme when the bus, a double-decker, skidded near the Mersey bridge, crashed into the hedge and turned a complete somersault, ending in the field 15ft. down the side of the road with its wheels in the air. The only part of the bus left intact appeared to be the chassis but the passengers, with the exception of one, managed to scramble out. A window which had been left unbroken had to be smashed to release one man, Thomas Tash, who had been trapped, and who had fainted. The driver, who was uninjured, was saved by his steering wheel, which kept the roof of his cabin from collapsing completely on him.
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Waipa Post, Volume 43, Issue 3328, 28 July 1931, Page 6
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174BUS SOMERSAULT Waipa Post, Volume 43, Issue 3328, 28 July 1931, Page 6
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