COLLISION IN STORM
BUS HITS MOTOR-VAN WOMAN SENT TO HOSPITAL [ Per Press Association. ] AUCKLAND, Feb. 16. During very heavy rain at about 8 o ’clock last night a motor bus bound for Otahuhu collided with a stationlary motor van in Lower Symonds Street. The top of the bus was ripped away from the body, and the passengers buried under a mass of tangled woodwork and broken ghass. On e passenger, Mrs Elizabeth Potter, an elderly woman, was sent to the hospital with an injury to one leg and prostrated by shock. Most of the passengers suffered from shock. Some were able to crawl out of the wreckage, but others, including Mrs Potter (ana a small child, were extricated by residents who rushed out on hearing the crash.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19769, 17 February 1927, Page 2
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