Charles Miller, who was moving from Greenville, S.C., to Mooresville, suffered painful injuries and the breaking up of a quantity of his household goods Saturday afternoon at 5 o’clock when the two-ton truck in which he was transporting his belongings rolled over the embankment at the bridge on the Dowd Road, near the Elizabeth Mills.
The truck belonged to T.H. Fairchild of Greenville, who was driving it. The furniture on the van was pretty badly broken up in the accident and the truck was injured to some extent. Mr. Miller suffered burns form gasoline when the gasoline became ignited. He was taken to St. Peter’s Hospital for treatment but was able to leave the hospital later in the evening. His family were not with him in the wreck but were coming later. Mr. Fairchild, the driver of the truck, escaped injury.
Motorcycle Officer Will McGraw went to the scene of the accident. He found that four cars had stopped near the bridge to let the heavily loaded truck pass over the bridge and was told that the driver of an automobile coming behind the truck cut around ahead of it, causing the driver of the truck to veer so close to the embankment that his truck slipped over and went down.
From the Charlotte News, Sunday, March 26, 1922
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