In a home near this city today, the lifeless body of a little boy lies while a grief-stricken father and mother, a brother and sister and other relatives mourn the child’s untimely end. A hope is enveloped with a pall of gloom as the result of this tragedy which swooped down so suddenly and so relentlessly.
There have been other tragedies of a like sort occurring here and elsewhere in years past. They have occurred elsewhere and they will continue to occur despite all that can be said and done but the number can be cut down if the proper precaution is taken.
Parents should impress upon their children, especially the younger ones, that they should not run into or across the streets of the city, or play on the same. The streets are intended mainly for the use of drivers of vehicles, while the sidewalks are for the use of pedestrians.
Drivers of automobiles and vehicles will regret any sort of an accident, no matter how small the same may be, but it is often impossible for them to avoid such. The drivers of vehicles, particularly automobiles, usually are of the opinion that the streets are free of pedestrians, except at crossings and though they are usually constantly on the alert it is often the case that some person who runs or steps out in front of a moving car is either killed or badly hurt.
The whole of Goldsboro regrets the tragedy of Friday afternoon, and we trust that the parents of other boys and girls will warn them not only once but many times against playing in the streets, and urge them to stop, look and listen before they attempt to cross any of the thoroughfares.
If this is done and the children give heed, we will not have a repetition soon of the latest fatal accident.
From editorial page of the Goldsboro News, Sunday morning, Feb. 28, 1926
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