Motorists reaching Goldsboro at an early hour this morning brought an account of a fatal automobile wreck on the Goldsboro-New Bern road several miles west of that city last night and which cost the lives of two negroes, the probably loss of life of another, put three others in a New Bern hospital and another, the driver of the car, a big Hudson touring car, in the Craven County jail.
According to the story as brought to Goldsboro the seven colored people, the names of none of whom could be learned, were bound toward this city in the tou
The driver attempted to take a curve at a bridge at a rate estimated at from 40 to 70 miles an hour. He failed to make it. The machine struck the concrete structure and was demolished with the results noted above.
From the front page of the Goldsboro News, Sunday, June 27, 1926
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