THREE COACH ACCIDENTS. IGl 



the career of the other two. Of the three 

 passengers, one was found senseless, and died 

 immediate!}' ; another had a leg broken; the 

 coachman was much injured ; the third pas- 

 senofer, thouQ-h his fall was four feet lower 

 than that of his companions in misfortune, 

 sustained scarcely any injury. Two other 

 passengers and the guard were providentially 

 thrown upon the road, and were but slightly 

 hurt. 



In the month of September, 1836, three fatal 

 coach accidents occurred. On the 10th, as the 

 Peveril, Manchester, and London night coach 

 was on its way to London, and about five 

 miles beyond Bedford, the pole-chain got loose 

 and one of the horses beg-an kickino: and 

 plunging, and almost immediately the end of 

 the pole attached to the coach became un- 

 fastened. The weight of the coach pressed 

 upon the horses (the coach then being at the 

 brow of a hill), and they had no power of 

 resistance. The coachman kept the horses in 

 the road till they reached the bottom of the 

 hill, when the near wheels ran upon the 

 grass, which was not more than four or five 

 inches hig^her than the road, and caused the 

 coach to overturn on the oflP side into 



