car overturned in 1913

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New Jersey Courier 11 Jul 1913

While speeding on the Lakewood-Toms River road at sixty miles an hour gait, an auto driven by Mr. Adams of New York on Saturday afternoon, July 6, struck the soft sand in the side of the road and turned turtle. Mrs. Adams, who was with her husband, was caught under the heavy car, her hip dislocated, and she was otherwise injured.
Onlookers said the car was going at least sixty miles an hour;that another car coming about the same speed from the opposite direction reached a wagon loaded with gravel, bound for Lakewood, at the same time Adams' car did; that Adams, trying to avoid hitting the wagon or the car, took the side of the road, hit soft sand, and his car turned over. The driver of the car himself is reported as saying that the driver of the wagon caused the trouble by failing to turn out for the automobile.

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