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Show Car Crashes Pole As Driver Dozes Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Wood, of Holden, escaped serious injury, as did their car, in a peculiar accident acci-dent Saturday morning about 11:30 They were on their way to Hinckley, Hinck-ley, to spend the day with their daughter, Mrs. Verdell Bishop, for a picnic dinner and family party. Mr. Wood was driving the car, and his wife, Mrs. Faye Wood, had packed several boxes of provisions, her part for the picnic dinner. A-bout A-bout a mile east of the railroad in Oasis, on the road from Holden, Mr. Wood dozed, for just a second or two, and awoke with a start, as the car crashed into a pole at the side of the road. The pole, with lines carrying 2300 volts for the power company, and some telephone lines, was hit squarely, and broke at the stub. Mrs. Wood was thrown against the dashboard, and was cut under the right eye. The windshield was broken, and picnic lunch strewn a-bout a-bout the road. Mr. Wood was not' hurt, and the car slightly damaged, with a dent in the bumper and some damage to the radiator. Mrs. Wood was brought into the Delta hospital and her injured eye treated. Stitches were taken in the cut, and the eye bandaged, and she was able to return home that evening. Luckily the eyeball was not cut, nor the vision damaged. Mr. Wood, who is not in the habit hab-it of dozing at the wheel, stated that this one lapse taught him never to do so again. |