Typed as spelled and written - Lena Stone Criswell

THE DAILY DEMOCRAT
(Year Missing) - Number 57
Marlin, Texas, Wednesday, July 8, 1931

MARLIN YOUTH INJURED IN
COLLISION ON STREET

Motorcycle Ricochets Off Truck
Trailer and Crashes Into
Nearby Tree

Some fractured ribs, body bruises and serious internal injuries were sustained by A. G. Dunn, Marlin youth, when a motorcycle he was riding collided with the side of a trailer of a truck driven by Elgin Hays, ricocheted off and crashed into a nearby tree in the yard at the of the latter near intersection of Live Oak and Price streets Tuesday afternoon.

Employed as deliveryman for a local market, Dunn was going east on Live Oak at the time of the accident.  Hays had just come north on Price street into Live Oak and was heading west on the latter street.  Hays said he saw Dunn pass the front part of his truck and did not realize a collision was imminent, no other vehicles being on the street at that point.

Tiny bits of shattered glass were noted on a standard staple of the trailer, which bore no signs of a severe impact.  There were dents in the top of the left front light and the left handle bar of the motorcycle, which is equipped with a side car body.  These marks were about the same height from the ground as the standard staple on the truck.

Witnesses said Dunn seemed to throw up his hands and lean backward as the motorcycle ricocheted off of the trailer.  The motorcycle then crashed into the tree some 40 steps away and came to a halt in the yard of the Hays' on the south side of Live Oak street.

Persons nearby at the time rushed to Dunn's rescue and disentangled him from the motorcycle.  He was placed in a passing car in an unconscious condition and taken to a hospital.  However, parties accompanying him said he appeared to partially regain consciousness before arrival at the hospital where he received immediate treatment.
An ambulance had been called, arriving just after Dunn had been taken from the scene.

Three blood transfusions

Examination at the hospital revealed Dunn had four fractured ribs, a ruptured left kidney and other internal injuries.

Blood for three transfusions was supplied by Tom Bradshaw, Curtis Eddins and Ulric Loggins.

His condition was reported this afternoon to be slightly improved
over Tuesday night.

It was Dunn's second misfortune of this kind, he having been bruised up in a collision between a motorcycle he was riding and a woodtruck on the Falls county courthouse square sometime ago.

Incidentally, it was the second time the tree which the motorcycle struck Tuesday afternoon had been involved in a crash.  A nearby resident said an automobile occupied by a negro man and his wife collided with the same tree about 10 years ago.

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