At yesterday’s Historical Society Talk about Jenolan Caves I discovered that there is a newsreel of the 1962 incident where a bus going round a corner on the Jenolan Caves Road went too far over to the left and fell to the bottom of the cliff. It was caused by a driver coming in the other direction being too far over to the right and the bus driver (who survived) was exonerated at the subsequent inquiry. Phil Hammond said that the driver was taken to what is now Scenic World afterwards. I have requested a copy of the newsreel but I don’t know if I will get it. This is the newsreel description
“Newsreel item from 1962 about a tourist coach that has crashed down a steep embankment near Jenolan Caves in New South Wales, killing four people. There are shots of the crash site and, in Blue Mountains District Hospital, survivors talk about the accident. (01:18) A bus travels along a narrow mountain road. There is a shot of rain and mist through the windscreen of a vehicle. The wreckage of a tourist bus, that has crashed killing four people, lies at the bottom of an embankment near Jenolan Caves in New South Wales. Trees and scrub have been knocked over by the bus as it rolled down the embankment. An ambulance leaves the crash site and travels along the mountain road. In Blue Mountains District Hospital a nurse attends to the head bandages of survivor Brian Devitt, and other survivors Mrs Osthpiej and Cynthia Parker talk about the accident.”