James F. Raymer, aged 78 years, is at his home on Eastern Heights, suffering from injuries received Monday morning a little after 10 o’clock, when he was struck by an automobile at the Reid R. Morrison place. He had been on a visit to his daughter, Mrs. Charles Mott at Mount Mourne, and was walking along the highway returning to his home in this city. J.E. Brown and P.E. Kale came along in a car and had stopped to take Mr. Raymer in. the old gentleman was crossing the road from the left to the right, when a Ford car came up behind him. The horn blew and Mr. Raymer apparently lost his head and stepped in front of the approaching car, although it had been pulled over as far as could be done without getting in a ditch. The Ford car was driven by Mrs. A.E. Love of Near Huntersville, and it was going at a very slow rate of speed.
The car knocked Mr. Raymer on the hood and then he sloughed off and fell to the hard-surfaced road. One wheel of the car apparently passed over his head, causing a laceration across the forehead and a number of bruises. The injuries were quite painful but are not considered very dangerous. Mr. Raymer is terribly sore.
Messrs. Brown and Kale, who were eye-witnesses, say the accident was unavoidable and attaches no blame whatever to Mrs. Love. Mrs. Love was accompanied by her daughter and two sons, all of whom offered whatever assistant they could render.
Mr. Brown brought the injured man to Dr. Taylor’s office, where every attention was given him before he was sent to his home. Wednesday morning Mr. Raymer was resting fairly well.
From page 2 of The Mooresville Enterprise, July 23, 1925
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