{"id":1704,"date":"2010-05-24T10:30:58","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T09:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=1704"},"modified":"2010-05-24T01:34:42","modified_gmt":"2010-05-24T00:34:42","slug":"take-heed-britains-first-fatal-car-accident-harrow-1899","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/take-heed-britains-first-fatal-car-accident-harrow-1899\/","title":{"rendered":"Take heed! Britain&#8217;s first fatal car accident, Harrow, 1899"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/take-heed-motor-accident.jpg\" alt=\"Take heed! Britain's first fatal car accident, Harrow, 1899\" \/><\/p>\n<p>En route to the boozer before Saturday&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/blackpool-3-cardiff-city-2-some-photos\/\">Championship play off final<\/a> at Wembley, I passed this plaque on a wall in Grove Hill, Harrow on the Hill.<\/p>\n<p>The roadside plaque (unveiled on 25 February 1969) records the site of Britain&#8217;s first fatal road accident, on 25 February 1899.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The dead driver was 31-year-old engineer Edwin Sewell, whose 6HP Daimler crashed into a wall after a rear wheel collapsed following a rim breakage.<\/p>\n<p>Sewell died instantaneously, while his passenger, Major Richer, was thrown from the vehicle and suffered such serious injuries that he died three days later in hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Take heed, indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>En route to the boozer before Saturday&#8217;s Championship play off final at Wembley, I passed this plaque on a wall in Grove Hill, Harrow on the Hill. The roadside plaque &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[194,193],"tags":[276,277,10],"class_list":["post-1704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-london-features","category-places","tag-cars","tag-harrow","tag-london"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/take-heed-motor-accident.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-ru","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1704"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1706,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704\/revisions\/1706"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}