Midlands News: 02.10.1969: Bus crash at Kingstanding, Birmingham

Summary

One woman has been killed and twenty six other people injured in a crash this morning between a bus and a coach at Kingstanding in Birmingham.

Year:

1969

Duration:

0:03:07

Film type:

Black & White / Sound

Company:

ATV

Master format:

16mm

Description

Shots of the wrecked bus and coach. The coach was transporting a group of disabled children to the Birmingham Corporation special training school at Old Oscot when it collided with the bus on the junction of Dulwich Road and Warren Farm Road at Kingstanding. The woman who died was on board the coach and has been named as Florence Dunn. Jeffrey Watson interview with eyewitnesses beginning with Mrs. Esther Burke into whose garden the bus crashed. Jeffrey Watson piece to camera.


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Notes

Story number - 69-1050