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 | | Bridget Driscoll was one of the first victimes of an automobile accident in the United Kingdom. |
 | | On August 17, 1896, in London, Bridget Driscoll, age 44 or 45, became an early car accident fatality (Mary Ward may have been the first in 1869). |
 | | As she and her teenage daughter, May, (and possibly one other person) crossed the grounds of the Crystal Palace, an automobile belonging to the Anglo-French Motor Car Company and being used to give demonstration rides struck her at a speed witnesses described as "a reckless pace, in fact, like a fire engine." |
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