 Briget Driscoll (circled) Bridget Driscoll was one of the first victims of an automobile accident in the United Kingdom. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
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On August 17, 1896, in London, Bridget Driscoll, age 44 or 45, became an early car accident fatality (Mary Ward may have been the first in 1869). As she and her teenage daughter, May, (and possibly one other person) crossed the grounds of the Crystal Palace, an automobile belonging to the Anglo-French Motor Car Company and being used to give demonstration rides struck her at a speed witnesses described as "a reckless pace, in fact, like a fire engine." August 17 is the 229th day of the year (230th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1896 (MDCCCXCVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display calendar). ...
This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ...
Minor collisions such as this one are the most common type of car accident. ...
Scientist Mary Ward Mary Ward (b. ...
1869 (MDCCCLXIX) is a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. ...
The 1851 Great Exhibition in Hyde Park . ...
The driver, Arthur James Edsall of Upper Norwood, claimed to have been travelling only 4 MPH (6.4 km/h). His passenger, Alice Standing of Forest Hill, alleged he modified the engine to allow the car to go faster although another cabbie analyzed the car and said it was incapable of passing 4.5 MPH because of a low-speed belt. Upper Norwood is an elevated area in south London, England within the postcode SE19. ...
Miles per hour is a unit of speed, expressing the number of international miles covered per hour. ...
Kilometre per hour (American spelling: kilometer per hour) is a unit of both speed (scalar) and velocity (vector). ...
View from the top of Forest Hill. ...
Engine tuning or engine building is the adjustment, modification or design of internal combustion engines to yield optimal performance, either in terms of power output or economy. ...
Taxicab, short forms taxi or cab, is a type of public transport for a single passenger, or small group of passengers, typically for a non-shared ride. ...
v-belt flat belt Belts are used to mechanically link two or more rotating items. ...
The jury returned a verdict of "accidental death" after an inquest lasting some six hours. The coroner Percy Morrison (Croydon div. of Surrey) said he hoped "such a thing would never happen again". The coroner's hope was short-lived, however, as automobile deaths are now one of the most common ways of dying in the world. No prosecution was made. This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...
A coroner is either the presiding officer of a special court, a medical officer or an officer of law responsible for investigating deaths, particularly those happening under unusual circumstances. ...
Croydon is a large town and major commercial centre in southern England, and is also an area of Greater London, being the main settlement in the London Borough of Croydon. ...
Not to be confused with Surry. ...
See also
Scientist Mary Ward Mary Ward (b. ...
Henry Bliss in 1873 Whilst Mary Ward was one of the first people in the world to be killed in an automobile accident (on August 31, 1869), Henry Hale Bliss (1831?-September 14, 1899) was the first person killed in such an accident in the United States. ...
Sources - History of Road Safety. Cardiff Council Road Safety Centre. Retrieved on June 3, 2006.
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