Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1912 — A Head-on Collission. [ARTICLE]

A Head-on Collission.

H. B. Tuteur, riding his motorcycle, and Mrs. Joseph Luers driving a Ford auto, had a head-on collision Saturday afternoon on Cullen street just west of the Makeever House, that resulted disastrously for the motorcycle and knocked a hole in the radiator of the auto. Herman was thrown on the hard street and his left* hand was sprain-, ed quite badly and he was bruised about the body considerably where he came in contact with the road.

Both i machines were running slowly or the results would have been more disastrous. Mrs. Luers, with Mrs. Joe Long in the auto with her, was comfrng south and Herman was going north. She was running on the east side of the street and did ntxt see him until they were quite close. Then, apparently, she became confused, and turned the auto to the left in close to the curb instead of pulling to the right. Had the automobile been running , a little faster it would have run OVer Herman as he lay in the street in front of it, but it did not have enough power to run over the motorcycle, and that fact was all that saved him from being run over. One of the wheel rims of the motorcycle *was > broken and ®t was otherwise damaged and twisted from the impact.