An accident which narrowly escaped being serious and possibly fatal occurred this morning shortly before 11 o’clock in front of the Times-Tribune office when Wade E. Biggers, an employee of the Ideal Lunch Room, ran over little Victor Allison, the 6-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. V.R. Allison of Spring Street.
The child was not seriously injured, hospital authorities declaring that apparently there was no fracture of the knee which was badly skinned and bruised. He also had a small bruise on his head. At noon he had been removed from the hospital where he was rushed immediately after the accident, to his home and it was stated at the house that “he was getting along all right.”
Directly responsible for the accident, according to spectators and according to Biggers, was the pernicious habit which has grown in recent months of parking double on the entire length of Union Street in the business district. It is not uncommon at the present time, persons said in discussing the accident, for three cars to be parked abreast, leaving passageway for only one or a tight squeeze for two.
At the time Biggers struck the child, an ice cream truck was double parked on one side of the street at Cline’s Drug Store and another truck was double parked in front of the Bell and Harris Undertaking Parlors. One child ran across the street while Biggers was still some distance away, and he slowed his speed. Just as he was directly in front of the Times-Tribune office, a second child darted out behind the truck and despite the fact that Biggers cut sharply to the left, he hit it with his right wheel.
Biggers was of the opinion that he did not run over the child. He stated that he thought that when he hit Victor, he was knocked to one side, avoiding a serious accident. The car was stopped almost directly after Victor was struck.
From page 3 of The Concord Daily Tribune, June 9, 1925
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