TRAM STRIKES ’BUS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 30 March 1925, Page 5

TRAM STRIKES ’BUS.

SENSATIONAL ACCIDENT

PASSENGERS INJURED.

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Sunday.

Early last evening a sensational accident occurred near the foot of Khyber Pass road, when a motor bus carrying passengers cn route for Onehunga was struck by a tramear, and completely overturned. Three of the bus passengers were injured, and were taken to the city hospital. The injured were: A middle-aged man named Gouda; injury to leg. Bertrand Greiggs, a young man, cut on the forearm. Henry Rudolph Carson, a young man, aged 27 years, residing at Park avenue, Takapuna; injury to left shoulder.

The doctors did not consider the injuries severe in the case of the two young men, who, after treatment, were able to leave the hospital. The smash occurred adjacent to where the road is under repair. Evidently the motor bus swerved out of the way of an obstructing tar barrel, and in so doing got in front of tramear No. 182, which was also going down the hill. The tram caught the bus side on, and pitched it across the upgoing tramlines, the side of the motor vehicle being badly smashed.

All passengers in the bus were bad ly shaken, but no one was severely injured. •