Western Light | 1914-05-30 | Page 5 | Beetle Makes Auto Crash into a Pole

I I BEETLE B TLE MAKES AUtO uto 1 I CRASH INTO IN i O A POLE OlE Bug Alights on Drivers Driver's Clothing S and Distracts ts His Attention I It From the Wheel el f Newton Centre A A beetle that alighted on the clothing of Law Lw Lawrence rence Rice oV of Newton as lie he was driving ing nl his fathers father's automobile toward his homS hoth the Ithe other her afternoon distracted his attention from the wheel lon long enough to send him crashing into a telephone pole at the top of the incline on Commonwealth avenue near Lake Street Rice and his companion John Cart Carl soil son of Newton Centre had a narrow ape from serious injury and tile the marine matIne was considerably damaged Th car hit the pole with such force ce lamp on top of it was shat sla r I i 1 I V Into ione Pole Rice was cut V about the head ana anI sustained a possible fracture ol I I rib and Carlson was gashed on I Z 5 the knee t the insect alighted d on Rice's Rices Clothing both he and his companion turned to examine it it in the belief thai it ivas yas a June bug They were marveling marvel marvet ing that it should make its appearance so early in the year when RiO Rice chanced to glance up and saw that thy w r running straight into the post He gave the wheel a twist bul pot l c t in timeto avert a a collision