HOLIDAY TRAGEDY
COACH PASSENGERS TRAPPED IN BRITAIN FOLLOWING ON COLLISION. TWELVE PERSONS BURNED TO DEATH. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) ■ (Received This Day. 9.50 a.m.) LONDON, August 6. Twelve holiday-makers were trapped and burned to death, while others were seriously injured, when a coach returning from Blackpool collided with a lorry trailer and burst into flames, near Rugeley. A number of passengers escaped by the emergency exit, but rescuers were unable to approach the others.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 August 1940, Page 5
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