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A CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS. 



r is difficult nowadays to take up a 

 daily or weekly journal without seeing 

 one or more reports of Accidents, such 

 as " Pam Over," " Upset/' " Thrown in 

 the Hunting Field," "Sad Collision 

 with a Steam Tramcar," "A Careless 

 Horseman," '' A Drunken Driver," 

 " Overloading," " Wrong Side," 

 " Furious Driving," &c., &c., whereby 

 serious, and in many cases, fatal in- 

 juiies have been iuflicted upon either 

 the animal or the people, or both. 



It is hoped the careful perusal of, and attention to, the 

 foregoing Chapters and rules, will at least reduce the num- 

 ber of such notices, and the risks of the road in particular, 

 to the permanent comfort of the horseman and the general 

 safety of the public. 



The following Extracts, taken from the daily journals, we 

 give by way of practical illustration, and the more forcibly 

 to drive our arguments home. The " cuttings," we trust, 

 will point their own moral to the reader : — 



CAERIAGE ACCIDENTS. 



While the Prince of Wales was driving to Sifeie given by Lady 

 Murray, at Cannes, the carriage ran against a heap of stones. 

 One of the shafts was broken, but no further damage was caused, 

 and another carriage having been sent for, his Royal Highness 

 proceeded to the fete. 



The Empress Eugenie visited the Imperial tomb at Chislehurst. 

 Whilst alighting from her carriage the Empress fell and rather 

 seriously injured her right leg. 



As Dr. Norris was being driven down Newhall Hill in a 

 brougham, the horse feU, and Dr. Norris was thrown out. He 

 fortunately escaped without any serious injury, though the coach- 



