High Point, March 20—Ivey Lanier, middle-aged white man, was perhaps fatally injured when an automobile in which he was riding collided with another machine on the Thomasville highway, three miles from here, tonight. Lanier was brought to the Guilford general hospital in an unconscious condition and the attending physician, Dr. W.J. Jackson, said the patient would not live through the night. He was injured about the head and neck.
According to witnesses of the accident, Lanier was en route to his home from this city and was driving on the right side of the road when his car was struck by an automobile driven by Sam Tucker, of this city. Tucker, according to reports, was driving at a rapid rate of speed and was endeavoring to pass another car when the collision occurred. Tucker escaped with minor injuries.
Lanier is 50 years of age and is employed as a machinist for the High Point Furniture Company. Tucker is superintendent of the Columbia Veneer and Panel Company at Thomasville, but makes his home in High Point.
Tucker was arrested, charged with assault and battery.
(Members of the local volley ball team, en route to Greensboro to play there Friday night, happened on the scene of the accident shortly after it had occurred. An ambulance had just arrived and Mr. Lanier seemed to be dying as he was placed on it. He was injured when he was thrown from his Ford by the force of the impact and was hurtled out and against the steel brace of the sunshield. This was bent double. By a rather unusual phenomenon, after the two cars struck, the heavier of the two, the Studebaker, was turned around and both the Ford and the Studebaker went head-on into the bank on the side of the road. Both cars were practically new, the Ford seeming not to have been driven before.—Editor)
From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, March 21, 1925
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