The loud chitty-chitty bang bang of the passing automobile frightened the horse which began dashing along the Post Road. Starr's horse was "high spirited." (Another report, however, suggested the horse was not "spirited.") As the animal trotted along drawing the carriage with the two women behind it, a new-fangled horseless carriage passed them. It seems, according to some reports, that Mrs.
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Another says the driver turned the carriage too sharply causing one of the fore wheels to catch in the guard on the body of the vehicle, tipping it. Some claim the horse was frightened by a passing automobile. Beyond the seriousness of the accident, however, the news accounts agree on little else. Various news reports clearly agree on that. Litson of New York City.Ĭlearly the accident was a serious one.
Starr of 322 South Columbus Avenue in Mount Vernon, a niece (by marriage) of the manager of Barnum & Bailey Circus, was driving a carriage. The accident occurred on the roadway roughly where today's Our Lady of Perpetual Help - St. One such accident occurred on Boston Post Road in Pelham Manor on the evening of Wednesday, June 20, 1906. Such accidents might attract rubber-necking from the two or three who passed by on carriages or horseback, but did little to hamper our major transportation arteries.
There was a time, however, when roadway accidents did not really slow the flow of traffic in Pelham. Worse yet is when commercial trucker ventures, illegally, onto the Hutchinson River Parkway (where such trucks are banned) and shears off the top half of the (soon to be former) employer's truck while trying to make it beneath low bridges built in the 1920s and 1930s. These days driving can be frustrating as a fender-bender or, heaven forbid, a full-blown crash brings the daily throb of traffic in or around Pelham to a complete standstill. The quiet beauty of our Town of Pelham is, paradoxically, nearly enveloped within some of the heaviest-traveled Interstate highways, roadways, and parkways in the United States.
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