Bicycle Collision

Waupaca Republican

July 19, 1907

BICYCLE COLLISION

Andy Pantridge was going home on his wheel Wednesday evening and had the right side of the road on Fulton Street, as he should. When in the shadow of electric lights in the distance and near Hotel Haven he struck a tandem wheel owned by Sam Williams, or the tandem hit his wheel; at least both wheels hit and there was a collision. He remembers of landing about ten feet one way and the wheel went another. The occupants of the tandem, Cack Cook and one of the Parish twins, were piled in a heap but were not hurt. The tandem did not fare quite as well for the front wheel was broken square off. It was purely an accident and would not have happened if they had been on the right of the Ry. Track coming east instead of the left side. It was awful lucky no further hurts resulted.