"Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse)
08/31/2019 at 18:35 • Filed to: Mary Ward
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"Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse)
08/31/2019 at 18:35 • Filed to: Mary Ward | 0
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This is the late Mary Ward. She’s the late because 150 years ago today she became the first known fatality following a road traffic accident when she was thrown from her cousins’ steam powered vehicle in Birr, Co Offaly in Ireland.
Mary’s great granddaughter is an actress and has appeared on Dr Who.
The steam vehicle was broken up on the day of her death as per her family’s custom for horse drawn vehicles.
Spanfeller is a twat
> Cé hé sin
08/31/2019 at 18:38 |
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well, my hour rule post was spoiled.
Just Jeepin'
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08/31/2019 at 19:10 |
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Now I’m curious how dangerous horse-drawn carriages were, that this family had an existing tradition to fall back on.
I know today every time I see an Amish family in a carriage I dread what might happen, but at least they didn’t have 50mph 2-ton metal death machines sharing the road 150 years ago.
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Cé hé sin
> Just Jeepin'
08/31/2019 at 19:21 |
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Quite so, apparently. In the days of horse drawn deliveries runaways by panicked horses were quite a thing as was failure to slow down goi ng downhill.
DipodomysDeserti
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08/31/2019 at 21:11 |
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A little girl was killed by an out of control wagon a few years ago during a rodeo parade in Tucson. I could only imagine how many spooked horses their were in an early industrialized city.