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NARROW ESCAPE Students on their way to school in Ashburton received a fright when their bus slipped off the side of the road yesterday morning. PHOTO SUPPLIED
Months until roading fix BY KATIE TODD
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A damaged stretch of road where a school bus crashed yesterday morning is unlikely to be repaired until at least spring, the council said. A Pearsons Coachlines bus slid off the side of Ashburton Staveley Road at around 8.21am, clipping a power pole and losing its wing mirror while transporting 10 students to Ashburton yesterday morning. Approximately 10 students, mostly
from Ashburton College, and the driver, were on board at the time of the crash. Nobody on the bus was injured. Pearsons Coachlines Ashburton branch manager, Mark Cook, said following the incident, police were carrying out tests on the road. The cause of the crash had not been confirmed, but poor road condition was likely to blame, he said. “It was just a greasy bit of road and the bus slid right off,” he said. One witness told the Guardian the
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bus driver was not at fault and the road was a “disaster waiting to happen”. Another regular road user, Eartha Scott, said she had written to the Ashburton District Council pleading with them to reseal Ashburton Staveley Road after she almost fish-tailed out of control driving on it.
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