Photograph of car accident one mile south of Kyle with onlookers and police officers in proximity of the wreck assessing the situation. One man is kneeling near the car door with a stretcher.
Photograph of car accident one mile south of Kyle with onlookers and police officers in proximity of the wreck assessing the situation, holding up traffic.
From San Marcos Record: Cigarettes sparks caused this one car wreck about 2:15 last Friday morning about four miles out on the Seguin Highway. Kenneth Wheeler, who was on this way from Chase Field in Beeville to a new assignment in California tried to put a cigarette out the window and it blew back in. As he tried to brush the sparks from his clothing, the car overturned, causing an estimated $1500 dollars damage to the car and injured shoulder to Wheeler. From the December 7, 1961 issue.
From San Marcos Record: Cigarettes sparks caused this one car wreck about 2:15 last Friday morning about four miles out on the Seguin Highway. Kenneth Wheeler, who was on this way from Chase Field in Beeville to a new assignment in California tried to put a cigarette out the window and it blew back in. As he tried to brush the sparks from his clothing, the car overturned, causing an estimated $1500 dollars damage to the car and injured shoulder to Wheeler. From the December 7, 1961 issue.
From San Marcos Record: Cigarettes sparks caused this one car wreck about 2:15 last Friday morning about four miles out on the Seguin Highway. Kenneth Wheeler, who was on this way from Chase Field in Beeville to a new assignment in California tried to put a cigarette out the window and it blew back in. As he tried to brush the sparks from his clothing, the car overturned, causing an estimated $1500 dollars damage to the car and injured shoulder to Wheeler. From the December 7, 1961 issue.
From San Marcos Record: Cigarettes sparks caused this one car wreck about 2:15 last Friday morning about four miles out on the Seguin Highway. Kenneth Wheeler, who was on this way from Chase Field in Beeville to a new assignment in California tried to put a cigarette out the window and it blew back in. As he tried to brush the sparks from his clothing, the car overturned, causing an estimated $1500 dollars damage to the car and injured shoulder to Wheeler. From the December 7, 1961 issue.