/ 19 November 1999

LAST BRITISH BUS CRASH VICTIM FLOWN HOME

THE last of the British tourists injured in the September 27 coach accident on the Long Tom Pass in Mpumalanga was discharged from a Nelspruit hospital on Thursday. Medi-Clinic spokeswoman Elsabee Coetzee confirmed that tour manager Carole Sandover, who is still in a coma, was airlifted from the hospital to Johannesburg by air ambulance on Thursday morning. “She will then be flown straight on to a hospital in her home country,” Coetzee said. Sandover, 44, was the last of the survivors to leave hospital after the horror bus crash near Lydenburg in which 28 people died. She had severe head and bodily injuries and has been in a coma ever since she was admitted to hospital. Sandover’s husband, Tony, was has been at her bedside since last month. He will leave the country separately on Thursday, and he will arrive in England on Friday morning.