Mrs. C.R. Stancill, 1118 South Tryon street, died at the Presbyterian hospital Sunday night at 9 o’clock as the result of injuries sustained a half-hour earlier when a fast-moving car, driven by her husband, overturned on the Myers Park-Dilworth boulevard upon the sudden application of brakes.
Mr. Stancill was cut and bruised, but he was able to leave the hospital Monday morning. Mrs. F.W. Smith and daughter, other passengers, were slightly injured, but hospital treatment other than first aid was unnecessary.
An obstruction across the boulevard to prevent machines from crossing an unsafe bridge over Briar Creek caused Mr. Stancill to apply his brakes. The machine swung to the right and was thrown down a five-foot embankment, pinning the passengers beneath. W.F. Sims, driving a car approaching behind the Stancill machine, went to the assistance of passengers in the wrecked machine.
The boulevard from Queens road in Myers Park leading to Briar Creek bridge and connecting with East Boulevard in Dilworth runs down grade. According to a report made by Mr. Sims to the police, the Stancill machine was going at a rapid rate down the hill. Mr. Sims is said to have remarked to his wife that something was going to happen unless the machine slowed down. Shortly afterwards the car turned over.
Mrs. Stancill was 20 years old and had been married a little more than a year. Funeral arrangements had not been made Monday morning, it was stated at the J.M. Harry Undertaking establishment, but the burial is expected to take place Tuesday.
Mrs. Stancill’s skull was fractured, her right jaw-bone broken and bruises sustained on the head. Mr. Stancill did not know that the boulevard was closed at the bottom of the hill, and he was expecting to cross the bridge and return to the city through Dilworth.
From the front page of The Charlotte News, Monday, August 1, 1921
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