The truck belonging to the Cabarrus Cash Grocery and the Ford belonging to Will Alred were both damaged this morning when they met in a head-on collision on Corbin street directly across from the Lutheran Church Parsonage.
Neither of the drivers of the vehicles was injured but the radiators and front fenders of both the automobiles were badly mashed.
According to spectators, Will Allred had been in the filling station on the left of the street and was just coming out and was heading up the hill when the truck came down it. The driver of the truck declared that he though Mr. Allred would stop since he was on the left of the street and so made no effort to slow up.
Mr. Allred, it was said, failed to find the brake in the excitement of the moment and the collision resulted. He however stated to the local police that he had given the truck plenty of room to pass and that instead of going by as he thought it would, it pulled over and the collision resulted from the misunderstanding.
From page 3 of The Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, June 20, 1925
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