Another Serious Bus
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Accident In W. Samoa
From Our Own Correspondent Apia, Jan. 12.
ANOTHER serious road accidej occurred on the morning January 9 when a bus full passengers collided head-on with PWD truck on the Cross Islar road of Upolu, West Samoa.
The bus involved in collision w: one of two which were carryii passengers from the village Vaiala, near Apia, for a crick match. It is believed that the PW vehicle, having passed the first bi did not see the second bus in den clouds of dust.
Edward Crichton, road forema who was sitting alongside the trui driver, was killed instantly as w one of the bus passengers, a Samoi chief of Vaovai, Lealiifano Paamai Twenty passengers in the bus we Injured, eight of them seriously.
Both bus and truck were cor pletely wrecked.
Another bad bus accident occurr last July when a bus plunged c the road near Solosolo, down a cli killing four and injuring 16.
Miss Pauline Campbell, for t past 3 years on the staff of t Methodists’ Dudley Memorial Gi School, Suva, expects to spe: leave at her home at Canber shortly.