THE FLAGLER TRIBUNE
Bunnell, Florida
Thursday, March 26, 1953

 

Sunday saw one of the worst automobile accidents ever to occur in Flagler County, when two cousins, John Oliver Gardner, 16, of Daytona Beach and John Mose Gardner, Baxley, Ga., cousins, were killed when the car in which they were riding went off the Triple A curve and turned over a number of times.

The driver, Merrill James Harris, 18, a Marine private stationed at Memphis, suffered a skull fracture and other injuries. He is in Halifax hospital in serious condition.

Rowley Wayne Bullard, 18, also of Baxley, received cuts and bruises. He was sent to the hos­pital for observation.

Highway Patrolman Dickie Moore, who investigated the accident, said the car was probably traveling 70 miles an hour when it went off the curve that has been marked by the State Road Department for a maximum of 45 miles an hour for safety.

A coroner's jury viewed the scene and then was adjourned pending outcome of those injured in the wreck.