Croquet club members hurt in a car mishap on the way home

A Dalby resident suffered injuries as the result of a most unusual series of circumstances, when a party of members of the Dalby Ladies' Croquet Club was returning to Dalby in a car driven by Mrs. E. J. Starling, on October 10. The car was about eight miles from Dalby when a short circuit occurred. The chain of the ignition key swung and contacted a wire leading to the ampmeter. A flash of flight was thereby caused. Although the car was stopped quickly, one of the passengers, Mrs. A. White, wife of the headmaster of the Dalby State School, opened the door to leave the car and apparently tripped on a rug. She fell heavily and fractured her left wrist. She was brought to her home in Dalby and later, after receiving medical attention, was admitted to the Dalby Hospital. None of the other occupants was injured, nor was any part of the car damaged.

The article as it was printed in The Toowoomba Chronicle, 13 October 1939. Scan from Trove, National Library of Australia. (Trove, National Library of Australia)