Hertford, Aug. 16—J.H. Jordan, Hertford Rt. 3, is nursing a bad cut on his head and A.B. Wiley of Belvidere is suffering with bad bruises form head to foot as a result of a buggy and auto collision Wednesday night at about 8:30 which took place on the Hertford road near the home of J.W. Halstead.
A Ford roadster driven by Bert Smith of Belvidere ran into a horse and buggy team driven by Joe Reynolds, colored, of Hertford Rt. 3. Neither of the drivers were seriously hurt. Jordan was riding with the negro while Wiley was in the car with Smith.
The roadster was going toward Hertford and the buggy was going in the opposite direction. Neither the car or buggy carried lights. The negro saw the Ford apparently headed too near him and haled Smith, but the driver of the automobile evidently did not hear him soon enough to slow his car down to any considerable degree.
At any rate, when the automobile struck the front wheel of the buggy both the car and buggy turned over and the horse loosed himself from harness and ran down the brick road until he was held up and taken back to the scene of the accident.
The top was smashed off the car, the windshield broken and the steering wheel was knocked off and its spokes smashed to splinters. The buggy was robbed of one wheel with another badly smashed. Ome of the tracers was stripped across the hood of the automobile. There were probably other damages to both the automobile and buggy that could not be observed at night.
Bert Smith, driver of the Ford, said that the lights went out just before he met the buggy and that he had planned to stop at Mr. Halstead’s to see if he could get some bulbs. Mr. Smith looked to be about 30 years old while Mr. Whiley, who road with him, is probably around 60. J.H. Jordan, who rode with the negro, is a young man, probably not over 25 years of age. The negro appeared to be about 50 years old. “A horse and buggy aint got no show on the road these days,” Reynolds declared after the accident.
J.W. Halstead and his family played the role of good neighbors to the injured, dressing their wounds and otherwise helping them in every way possible.
From the front page of the Daily Advance, Elizabeth City, N.C., Saturday evening, Aug. 16, 1924
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