the Smithfield Herald. Tue March 7,1939.
Eleven year old Grover Cleveland (Billy) Wynne was fatally injured Friday afternoon March 3, 1939 when struck by an automobile shortly after he stepped from a school bus on U.S. Highway 301 between Four Oaks and Benson.
The automobile was driven by Edward H. Robinson, salesman from St. Louis, MO who was ordered held under a $1000 bond pending grand jury action after a coroner's inquest here Saturday. He posted bond immediately.
Three witnesses testified at the coroner's inquest. They were Tommy Allen, driver of the school bus; James Ryals, farmer who was riding in a wagon several hundred yards behind the school bus and who saw the car strike the child; and Jack Hunter, highway patrolman, who investigated the accident.
THE EVIDENCE
Evidence presented before the coroner's jury tended to show that young Wynne had gotten out of the bus as it was unloading a number of school children near Oliver's Chapel church about three miles south of Four Oaks, had gone to the rear and started across the highway behind the bus when the Robinson car came along from the opposite direction, struck him with the left front fender and tossed him some distance down the road.
Robinson stopped, picked up the boy and carried him to Dr. J.H. Stanley in Four Oaks who advised that he be rushed to the hospital. The child died at the Johnston County Hospital at 6 p.m. Friday, two hours and a half after the accident.
The evidence showed that Robinson was traveling about 45 miles an hour on the right side of the highway but did not slacken his speed to any visible degree in approaching the school bus.
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Eleven year old Grover Cleveland (Billy) Wynne was fatally injured Friday afternoon March 3, 1939 when struck by an automobile shortly after he stepped from a school bus on U.S. Highway 301 between Four Oaks and Benson.
The automobile was driven by Edward H. Robinson, salesman from St. Louis, MO who was ordered held under a $1000 bond pending grand jury action after a coroner's inquest here Saturday. He posted bond immediately.
Three witnesses testified at the coroner's inquest. They were Tommy Allen, driver of the school bus; James Ryals, farmer who was riding in a wagon several hundred yards behind the school bus and who saw the car strike the child; and Jack Hunter, highway patrolman, who investigated the accident.
THE EVIDENCE
Evidence presented before the coroner's jury tended to show that young Wynne had gotten out of the bus as it was unloading a number of school children near Oliver's Chapel church about three miles south of Four Oaks, had gone to the rear and started across the highway behind the bus when the Robinson car came along from the opposite direction, struck him with the left front fender and tossed him some distance down the road.
Robinson stopped, picked up the boy and carried him to Dr. J.H. Stanley in Four Oaks who advised that he be rushed to the hospital. The child died at the Johnston County Hospital at 6 p.m. Friday, two hours and a half after the accident.
The evidence showed that Robinson was traveling about 45 miles an hour on the right side of the highway but did not slacken his speed to any visible degree in approaching the school bus.
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the Smithfield Herald. Tue March 7,1939.
Eleven year old Grover Cleveland (Billy) Wynne was fatally injured Friday afternoon March 3, 1939 when struck by an automobile shortly after he stepped from a school bus on U.S. Highway 301 between Four Oaks and Benson.
The automobile was driven by Edward H. Robinson, salesman from St. Louis, MO who was ordered held under a $1000 bond pending grand jury action after a coroner's inquest here Saturday. He posted bond immediately.
Three witnesses testified at the coroner's inquest. They were Tommy Allen, driver of the school bus; James Ryals, farmer who was riding in a wagon several hundred yards behind the school bus and who saw the car strike the child; and Jack Hunter, highway patrolman, who investigated the accident.
THE EVIDENCE
Evidence presented before the coroner's jury tended to show that young Wynne had gotten out of the bus as it was unloading a number of school children near Oliver's Chapel church about three miles south of Four Oaks, had gone to the rear and started across the highway behind the bus when the Robinson car came along from the opposite direction, struck him with the left front fender and tossed him some distance down the road.
Robinson stopped, picked up the boy and carried him to Dr. J.H. Stanley in Four Oaks who advised that he be rushed to the hospital. The child died at the Johnston County Hospital at 6 p.m. Friday, two hours and a half after the accident.
The evidence showed that Robinson was traveling about 45 miles an hour on the right side of the highway but did not slacken his speed to any visible degree in approaching the school bus.
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Eleven year old Grover Cleveland (Billy) Wynne was fatally injured Friday afternoon March 3, 1939 when struck by an automobile shortly after he stepped from a school bus on U.S. Highway 301 between Four Oaks and Benson.
The automobile was driven by Edward H. Robinson, salesman from St. Louis, MO who was ordered held under a $1000 bond pending grand jury action after a coroner's inquest here Saturday. He posted bond immediately.
Three witnesses testified at the coroner's inquest. They were Tommy Allen, driver of the school bus; James Ryals, farmer who was riding in a wagon several hundred yards behind the school bus and who saw the car strike the child; and Jack Hunter, highway patrolman, who investigated the accident.
THE EVIDENCE
Evidence presented before the coroner's jury tended to show that young Wynne had gotten out of the bus as it was unloading a number of school children near Oliver's Chapel church about three miles south of Four Oaks, had gone to the rear and started across the highway behind the bus when the Robinson car came along from the opposite direction, struck him with the left front fender and tossed him some distance down the road.
Robinson stopped, picked up the boy and carried him to Dr. J.H. Stanley in Four Oaks who advised that he be rushed to the hospital. The child died at the Johnston County Hospital at 6 p.m. Friday, two hours and a half after the accident.
The evidence showed that Robinson was traveling about 45 miles an hour on the right side of the highway but did not slacken his speed to any visible degree in approaching the school bus.
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