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MOTORCYCLEiRUNS INTO AUTOWilliam McKean Is SeverelyInjured Yesterday Afternoon in CollisionSUSTAINS BROKEN KNEEMcKean Was Pacemaker ofMotorcycle Races, Leading Last Man to Finish..JirrWhat might easily have been a fatal accident occurred yesterday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock, as the motorcycle racers were coming down Heron street to the finish. William McKean, who was the official pacemaker and patrol, was leading in the fourth and last rider, going at a speed of about 30 miles an hour, he ran into the automobile driven by Mrs. Ed. Larkin, crushing his motorcycle and the windshield and fender of the auto, and was himself severely injured.The accident occurred at the intersection of Heron and H streets, and McKean was taken into the store of the Aberdeen Drug Co., where a hur ried examination was made. An ambulance was called and he was taken to the Aberdeen General hospital, where his injuries were found not to be so serious as was at first surmised, a broken knee cap being the extent of his injuries.Mrs. Larkm in* her car, in which were Mr. and Mrs. A. Emerson Cross and baby, were standing on Heron street near the corner of H, watching the motorcycles come in. The street, while crowded, was kept clear in the center until three of the racers arrived. The crowd appears to have thought they were all in and that the race was finished and commenced to gather in the middle of the street. Mrs. Larkin, thinking the races over, started up her auto, and turned to go up H street, when the crowd in the street began to scatter, and some of them shouted to Mrs. Larkin, who stopped her auto in the center of Heron street, just as McKean was within 50 feet of H street.He was coming swiftly, with his head lowered and his hands in the center of the handle bars, when he saw the auto. He cut off the power, and let the cycle go from under him, which action doubtless saved his life, but the speed he was going threw1
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Aberdeen Herald
Aberdeen, Washington, US
Tue, Sep 02, 1913
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