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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