Matthew Warden, white youth living near Black Head Sign Post, a son of the late Johnson Warden, almost had his nose severed from his face when he was pitched through the windshield of a Ford roadster in a collision on the Woodville highway, near the Suffolk & Carolina Railroad crossing this morning at 6:30 o’clock. He sustained numerous other cuts about the face and hands also.
Warden was riding in a car driven by George Sawyer of Chapanoke, employed at the shipyard of the Elizabeth City Iron Works on Riverside Avenue. The two were on their way to this city at the time of the accident. The other car was driven by Tom Griffin, colored, of this city.
Efforts to get in touch with Sawyer and Warden this morning were unavailing. Griffin’s version of the accident was the only one available. He stated he was driving toward Hertford when he met another car near the railroad crossing, and that he swerved well to the right to give it ample room to pass. At that juncture, he declared, the roadster occupied by Sawyer and Waden overtook and turned out from behind the car he was passing, going to the left of the road and colliding with Griffin’s, a Ford touring car. Both automobiles were wrecked badly.
Warden was brought hastily to Elizabeth City and the cut on his nose was sewn up by Dr. T.S. McMullan. His other injuries were not regarded as serious. Nobody else was hurt.
Griffin stated that at the time of the accident, he was on his way to Parksville, where he is engaged in lumber work.
From the first page of The Daily Advance, Elizabeth City, N.C., Monday evening, Jan. 4, 1926
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