Bus Balanced on ledge after 185 ft. Fall

Wrecked bus lying precariously on rocky ledge above the sea where it stopped after rolling 185 feet in an accident near Alofau village, Tutuila, Eastern Samoa, on April 18.

The accident caused the death of one man and injuries some serious - to 17 others. The man who was killed, Ta'ili'ili Lauifi, tried to leap out of the bus while it was rolling over. The bus, when rounding a corner failed to take the bend on a soft shoulder of road. If the ledge had not stopped the bus it would have ended in the sea with probably even greater loss of life. Pan American print.