Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-08-02 | Page 4 | Child Alone in Runaway Auto

CHILD ALQNE1N RUNAWAY AUTO Car Slips Downhill and Lodged Against Boulder on Brink of Creek BRIGHAM, Aug. 2. Dale Carter, three-year-old son of Mr and Mrs Wllmer Carter of this city, featured In a darlnp oplsodr Wednesday. An auto-Biobile auto-Biobile ran away with tho lad, down the hill nnd fastened Itsolf on a large boulder on the edge of tho creek I he boy was not seriously Injured Mrs. j. k Petersen and daughter. ' I nnd Mrs Wllmer Carter and two ' hiMren. '.vent up Pox Elder canyon to the hous- owned by L, J. Anderson, south of Mantua. L'pon arrival there the car was left standing near tho gate on what was supposed to be level ground The brake ivns sel The women went out In tho yard picking berries and Dale climbed Into the car and started to Investigate ' In some unknown manner he released the brake and the car started out With him as the solo passenger. Instead of following the road, or dugway. the car shot down the hill to the left and traveled several hundred vards down to the creek, where the automobile collided with a large boulder and was h-M there with the front wheels hanging hang-ing oer the creek bed No ono saw tho thriller. L J. Anderson An-derson was nearby and claims that he heard the car when it left the house, but he supposed the women folks were In the car, going back home. Soon after he saw tho auto lodged down at the bottom and the boy coming back towards the house crying. Xo one knows whether he was In the front or tho back of the car or Just what did happen to him. Other than a few bad bruises he escaped Injury.