Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1912 — A Near Auto Accident. [ARTICLE]

A Near Auto Accident.

While driving along the south grovel road Saturday evening, J. L. Brady's auto took a sudden notion to run into the ditch, and leaving the road took to the right side, thus missing the steep embankment of the big dredge ditch along which he was driving at a moderate rate of speed. Mr. Brady had been tightening up the steering gear before he left home and had twisted off one of the bolts. He had neglected to get the bolt replaced, thinking it would not lose out, but it seems that as he approached the big ditch, a few miles north of Remington, the bolt dropped from the machine, thus rendering the car unmanageable, and its erratic course was suddenly stopped by the friendly intervention of a barbwire fence. Mr. Brady escaped without any scratches to show for the accident.