Show 16 as U R ms Sign ird in hi Ar zona PHOENIX Ariz March 8 UP An An bus jumped a roadside ditch west of Avondale early Thursday a and n d crashed through a sign board all 15 passengers and the driver L. L Z Smith Phoenix the driver suffered only minor cuts but one passenger William Villiam Bass 35 Santa Barbara Cal was not expected to i live Stale State highway patrolmen said Bass and another passenger were thrown through the windshield when the bus left the highway All injured were taken to a Phoenix hospital but two released after emergency treat treat- I ment Bass was considered the most seriously injured Three others were listed as serious by hospital officials The driver told patrolmen he veered to avoid hitting an oncomIng oncoming ing car ost control of the bus busand busand busand and went off the road Officers said the vehicle hurtled a ditch plowed up a steep incline cleared a high four-foot-high barbed fence and plunged through the sign board The bus came to rest upright feet off the hi highway hiway way Six x ambulances were dispatched to the scene two miles west vest of Avondale 17 miles west of Phoenix Phoenix Phoe Phoe- I nix to bring the injured to Humanity Memorial hospital here |