ACCIDENTS loi 



to the memory of " Catherine, wife of James 

 Bailey, who, in consequence of the overturnin<»' 

 of the Dorking Coach, April 1826, met with her 

 death in the 22nd year of her age." 



1827. Deconher. — The uj) Salisbury coach was 

 driven, in the fog prevailing at the time, into a 

 pond called the " King's Water," at East Bedfont, 

 on HounsloAV Heath. An outside passenger, a 

 Mr. Lockhart Wainwright, of the Light Dragoons, 

 was killed on the spot, by falling in the water. 

 The pond was only two feet deep, hut it had 

 a further depth of two feet of mud, and it 

 was thought that the unfortunate passenger was 

 smothered in it. The four women inside the 

 coach had a narrow escape of being drowned, but 

 were rescued, and the coach righted, by a crowd 

 of about a hundred persons, chiefly soldiers from 

 the neisihbourins; barracks, who had asseml)led. 



1832. Fehrnary 19th. — Mr. Fleet, coachman 

 and part-j^roprietor of the Brighton and Tunbridge 

 Wells coach, killed by the overturn of his con- 

 veyance. 



1832. October 30M.— Brighton Mail upset at 

 Beigatc. Coachman killed on the spot. The 

 three outsides suffered fractured ribs and minor 

 injuries. 



In 1833 the Marquis of Worcester, a shining 

 light of the road in those days, began that 

 connection with the Brighton Boad Avhich after- 

 wards produced the " Duke of Beaufort " coach, 

 made famous by the coloured j)rints after Lambert 

 and Shayer. lie was passionately fond of driving, 



