The first fetal car crash in history

 

Forty-four-year-old Bridget Driscoll, who lives in Croydon, Surrey, is out for her usual evening walk. In 1897, on a bright Tuesday in August, on the seventeenth day of the month, she decided to extend her short walk to London. Mixed with the murmurs of the daughter who accompanied her, the gallivanting journey of her friend Elizabeth's contemporary gossip may have been tiring. Sometimes that may not be the case. However, she had decided to return. That's why she clings to the Dolphin Terrace near the Crystal Palace, holding her daughters' hands. She was stunned by the strange sound that came out of nowhere. It had a mechanical abnormality that sounded like an inhuman hoot. She was one of the most ignorant Londoners, still unfamiliar with the sound of a car horn, and stared at it for a moment. The metal masked mechanical killer took the space with his permission to push his own mass onto the small surface of a delicate body. 

        Arthur James Edsall of Upper Norwood, who was driving the car, quickly got out of the car. In a test drive to buy his first car, he reached a top speed of only four miles per hour (6.4kmh). Why did this woman cross the road so quickly? Didn't the loud trumpet sound to the islands? Did you stand on the road like when a stone was planted? Bridget, who did not answer any of those questions, remained silent, as if in a pool of blood.

For the first time, a pedestrian was killed in a car crash. Arthur James was immediately arrested. At the end of a six - hour trial, the jury acquitted him, introducing the term "accident". Percy Morrison of Croydon, where the inquest was held, saw the rarity of such an unprecedented death and boldly guessed that 'there would be no such death in the future', and he had no doubts about it.

That 's it! Today, there are an estimated 1.25 million fatal road accidents worldwide each year. That is, 3400 human lives that breathe per day are killed in action.