Charles Hunt, Member of Lexington Football Team, Killed When Truck He Was Driving Overturned, Oct. 13, 1923

Chas. Hunt Killed in Auto Accident. . . Lexington Boy Killed When Heavily Loaded Truck Turned Over on Him

By the Associated Press

Lexington, N.C., Oct. 13—Charles Hunt, a member of the local High School football squad, and son of E.G. Hunt, was instantly killed early this morning when he was pinned beneath a heavily loaded flour truck that overturned on a hill two miles east of this city. Hunt’s neck was broken.

The engine of the truck stalled going up a long ill, it is said, and the brakes failed to hold the heavily loaded vehicle which ran backward about 100 feet and overturned. John Tussell escaped injury by jumping. Hunt, who was driving, is reported to have attempted to jump, but his overcoat caught on the truck.

From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Oct. 13, 1923