Montpelier Examiner
The Montpelier Examiner, 14 September 1917
Editor C E Wright, of the Examiner, received a
broken rib, a badly wrenched and bruised shoulder and a bad cut on the head last
Monday afternoon when his "tin Lizzie" turned turtle on the Montpelier Paris
road. Mr. Wright was returning from a business trip to the county seat
when his car skidded on the slippery road about 300 feet east of the ping pong
tracks, turned end for end, and then fell on its side in the ditch, pinning the
editor beneath the car.
The windshield was broken and the top wrecked, otherwise the car was undamaged. Fred Cruikshank went out after the accident and ran the car into town. because of the rain, Mr. Wright had the top up and because of the top being up more serious injury was most likely avoided.
Mr. Wright will be laid up for about two weeks,
during which time he may well ponder upon the indestructibility of the Ford and
the frailty of the human anatomy.