The three-months-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Sanford Hunter of Tradesville, S.C., died in the Ellen Fitzgerald hospital in Monroe Saturday night from injuries received in an accident which occurred when a car driven by Mr. Hunter collided with a Hudson car driven by Dr. W.C. Houston of Concord.
The collision occurred at the intersection of Main and Windsor streets in Monroe, and Dr. Houston has been freed of all blame. In the car with Dr. Houston were Mrs. Houston and the latter’s sister, Mrs. W.J. Rudge of Monroe. Mr. and Mrs. Hunter, the three-months-old child, and a 16-year-old boy were in the Hunter car.
First reports from Monroe said the two cars were badly damaged but this was not the case. The small car had only one fender damaged, and only the bumper on the Hudson car was hurt. According to reports reaching Monroe, the Hunter car struck the Houston car, the left fender of the former striking the bumper of the latter. The Hunter car ran on about 20 feet from the scene of the collision before it was stopped, it is said, and the baby fell from its mother’s arms to the asphalt street, suffering injuries that proved fatal.
The child fell on the opposite side of the car from the Houston car and was not struck by either car after it fell to the street. How the child slipped from its mother’s arms is not known, but it did not fall at the point where the cars met.
Neither car was moving rapidly when the accident occurred, it is said, and persons in the car were not badly shaken by the impact of the collision.
From page 2 of The Concord Times, Monday, Jan. 25, 1926
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