Re. Sunderland daily echo and shipping gazette look up.

[rainecooper]

Could anyone please look up an article from 20th February 1948 about a bus collision which happened at the bottom of Penshaw monument please.

[sgf28]

Quite a long article, front page and continued on Page 4, so have minimised:

Head on Crash on Icy Road
Three ambulances, passing cars, buses and lorries were used to convey 25 people to Sunderland hospitals, who were injured when two single deck buses, laden with early-morning workers, collided on the snow covered Sunderland - Chester le Street road near Penshaw monument.

One bus finished half way through the hedge, and the driver Ernest ?ishman, 52, Sylvia Terrace, Stanley had to be extricated from the wrecked cab. He was detained in Royal Infirmary with a rib injury.

The second bus travelling towards Chester le Street, skidded on the icy road at the top of a small incline, and crashed head on with the other vehicle. The driver William Tasker, Sancroft Drive, Houghton was treated for an arm injury.

Other four of the injured,Stella Redpath of Castle View, Old Penshaw(leg and head injuries),Margaret Parr,26,Ashbrook Mount, Sunderland(lacerated face and head),James Waters(40)Grange Street South, Sunderland,(leg injuries) and Frank Smith(59)coal sampler, Dene StreetPallion(head and face injuries)were detained in hospital, the remainder were allowed to leave after treatment.
The seat immediately behind the driver on the Sunderland bound bus,occupied by Stella Redpath had to be levered up by uninjured passengers to release her legs, a witness told Sunderland Echo reporter 'she was quite cheerful throughout her ordeal and smoked a cigarette throughout the whole time.'
many of the injured were treated at Penshaw Hill House for first aid treatment before being conveyed to hospital.

Going to look at Page 4 now....

[sgf28]

Page 4:

'One of the witnesses 'I was sitting mid-way on the nearside of the vehicle travelling towards Sunderland' Thomas Lynn(28)South Durham Street, Hendon 'as we breasted the hill the bus skidded on the slippery surface as the other vehicle was approaching. I was thrown over the tops of two seats by the force of the impact and all my front teeth were broken.'
A blind passenger, in the east bound bus William Roland(54)a mat maker of Holly Terrace, Burnopfield was travelling to Sunderland Blind Institute, he received  leg and head injuries.
Ernest English(29)of Thomas Street, South Ryhope, a clerk with a building contractors at Pelton Fell usually travelled on the front seat but didn't that morning.

Sixteen passengers treated at Royal Infirmary:
Hugh Mckie(61), builder, Victor Street,Chester le Street(leg injuries),William Roland, Burnopfield,John Tait(16)apprentice engineer, Chapel Row,Fence Houses,Wilfred Hardy(23)coach builder, South crescent,Fencehouses, Richard Marshall(27)joiner, Deptford Terrace, Sunderland,Frank Holmes(37)coach builder, Castle View, Shinet Row, Margaret Willingham(25) maid, Ashbrook Mount, Sunderland, John Hall(31)painter, Tatham Street, Sunderland,Robert Wilkinson(33)Liberty Villas, Grindon,James Bilton(32)motor driver, Hedworth Terrace, Shiney Row, Margaret Gillan(40)nurse, Warren Street, Sunderland, Albert Chilton(32)mechanic, Railway Terrace, Hylton

[sgf28]

and some more names:
Robert Smith(31)joiner, Western Hill,Sunderland, John Poulter(31)builder, The Harbour, Shiney Row,(shoulder injury), James Black of Dene Street, Pallion, and Thomas Lynn(28)steel dresser of South Durham Street, Hendon(all with lacerations to the head and face).

Treated at Sunderland General Hospital:
James Blackburn(25)Sorley Street(lacerated forehead),George Blackburn(33)Brougham Street(nose injury),and George Baker(23)Canon Cockin Street(leg injuries) all of Sunderland.

[rainecooper]

Thank you so much for taking the time to write all of that out for me.
My grandmother was on the bus at the time and was badly injured.
She spent a month in hospital and lost her memory because of her head injury. Her mother in law nursed her back to full health after she was discharged from hospital.
Thanks again
Kind regards
Claire