A Chevrolet coupe plunged 19 feet or more from the temporary bridge at Brushy Creek Sunday afternoon about 5 o’clock, and reports had it that the occupants were seriously injured and rushed to the local hospital for treatment, but no patients arrived there from this accident.
It could not be learned how the accident happened, but the car broke through the siderails and landed on its radiator in the sand 18 feet below, being badly damaged. A small child was the only witness, and she did not know the names of the occupants. Ne report had it that the car was knocked form the bridge by a jitney, but this is denied at the bus headquarters.
If the occupants were injured, their injuries were not serious enough to take them to the hospital, but their escape from death was nothing short of a miracle.
From the front page of The Cleveland Star, Shelby, N.C., Monday, June 7, 1926
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