Mexborough & Swinton Times, September 16, 1932

After The Smash

The car which was involved in a nasty accident at the junction of Bank Street and Cross Church Street, Mexborough, at 1.30 p.m. on Wednesday, when a motor-cycle ridden by Walter Goddard (25), engineer, of 29, Addison Road, Mexborough, with Rupert Chadwick Truelove (23). engineer, of Greno House. Church Street, Mexborough, as pillion passenger, collided with it. The car was driven by John William Brook, commercial traveller, 3, Clifton Gardens, Brierley.

The motor-cyclist who was coming from the direction of Swinton crashed into the front of the car as it turned across Bank Street into Cross Church Street. He was flung, with his passenger, clean over the bonnet of the car, falling into the road beyond, and the motor-cycle rebounded into Cross Church Street.

The ambulance from the Montagu Hospital was sent for and Goddard and Truelove were taken to the hospital, where the latter was detained suffering from shock and abrasions to the head. Goddard had a cut on his knee dressed.

The driver of the car was unhurt, but both car and motor-cycle were badly damaged.