Car Accident Story

This afternoon at 4:45 p.m., three people were injured in a car accident when two vehicles collided at the intersection of First Street and Slaughter Lane.

"It happened really fast - the fastest car on the street sped into the slowest car on the street out of nowhere," says eyewitness Patty Jones.

Roger Clementine, 13, was driving at 60 miles per hour down a road with a speed limit of 45.

"The boy kept coming up behind people and passing them by at a crazy speed," one person at the scene says.  "When he passed me and I saw that he barely looked 13, I can honestly say I panicked."

Clementine was treated for minor cuts in the hospital, and then released.  He was arrested shortly after for driving without a license, speeding, and driving in the wrong lane.

"The moment saw some person in a Studebaker driving like a maniac down the wrong lane, I knew something bad was bound to happen," another eyewitness says.  "And something bad did happen not too long after that."

The people in the other car, however, were not entirely free of fault either.

"People were piled up behind the Yugo, honking and screaming at the driver.  He must have been going 10 miles per hour or something," Patty says.

The Yugo was, in fact, going 10 miles per hour.  The driver, 91-year-old John Jacob Jingleheimer-Smith, was committed to the hospital with a serious head injury.

"He's still at the hospital," his wife, Melba, says.  "He will be okay.  It was a disconcerting accident, but nothing too grievous happened."

Melba, herself, was treated for only a nosebleed before she was released from the hospital.

"I just want this mess to be over," Melba admitted.  "The accident was just that - an accident, and it's done now."

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