Two Samoans Killed in 'Bus
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From Our Own Correspondent APIA, April 11.
PROBABLY the worst accident in Samoa in recent years occurred on March 4, when a Gold Star motor bus loaded with passengers travelling from Apia to Mulifanua on the West Coast beach road, hit a coconut tree in Faleasiu Village. Two Samoan passen gers (father and son) were killed and two others injured.
The accident apparently was caused by the Samoan driver of the Gold Star ’bus trying to pass a ’bus of the opposition Green Line on a stretch of narrow road.
The Gold Star driver has been arrested for negligent driving. An inquest will be held on the victims of the accident.
Mr. Oberdorf was gold sluicing on the Milne Bay goldfield, Eastern Papua, recently, when a falling coconut hit him at the base of the spine. He was tem porarily paralysed, but later apparently made a good recovery.