UNUSUAL ACCIDENT
CLERGYMAN KILLED, SIX OTHERS INJURED Sydney, Jan. 29. A clergyman was killed and six others injured in an unusual accident 20 miles south of Newcastle. A tourist bus carrying 20 passengers returning from Brisbane to Melbourne after the holiday was passing another vehicle on a narrow culvert. The other vehicle consisted of a mojor trailer on which was a bulldozer. As the bus passed, the blade of the bulldoze" ripned through the side of the bus from the front to the rear, causing shocking injuries to some of the passengers The Rev. Thomas Bibby, of Brisbane, was killed instantly, and his wife suffered shock and cuts to her hands and face.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 30 January 1948, Page 5
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