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Speaking of early car crashes, in 1904, a cousin born in North Carolina but living in Michigan at the time, got startled by a horn honking and jumped out of the roadway. Having bad hearing and curious as to what it was, he jumped BACK INTO THE ROAD and then hit by the LANTERN before being run over. He was among the earliest pedestrians in America killed by a car.

He apparently lost most of his hearing during the war. He was in Michigan in 1861 as part of the 2nd Army post in which he and his brother were Lieutenants and their father was the Commanding Officer. When the war broke out he remained a Yankee (his wife was from New York), but his brother resigned and became a Confederate Officer. So besides being among the first killed in America by a car, he was possibly the first veteran of that war killed by automobile.
 
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