Myrtle Prevatte's Face Badly Cut in Auto Accident, July 29, 1922

Woman Editor Hurt in Automobile Accident. . . Miss Myrtle Prevatte’s Face Severely cut When One Card Sideswipes Another Near Shelby

Shelby, July 28—Miss Myrtle Prevatte, editor of the Maxton Scottish Chief and a member of the party of newspaper men and women returning late this afternoon from Chimney Rock, was severely though not dangerously injured in an automobile accident a few miles from Shelby. She was in an automobile driven by a young Mr. Hoey, said to be a nephew of Hon. Clyde R. Hoey, which sideswiped a car driven by a farmer, as the latter was turning from the highway to his residence on the side of the road.

The car driven by Hoey was trailing along behind the farmer’s car, it was aid, when the latter curved to the left to draw up in front of his house. The young man’s machine started to pass on the left and plunged into the farmer’s car, throwing Miss Prevatte through the windshield, severely cutting her face. Medical aid was quickly summoned and Miss Prevatte was taken to the Central Hotel. It was said it was not necessary to take her to a hospital, though several stitches in her face were necessary.

The farmer’s car was badly smashed up, though it was said the Hoey car was not seriously damaged. No one but Miss Prevatte was injured.

From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, July 29, 1922