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“Bumper Fractures” – A Medical Term For Road Casualties

December 1938

Leeds Mercury – Friday 30 December 1938

“Bumper Fractures”

A Medical Term For Road Casualties

Giving evidence at an Inquest at Doncaster to-day on a man who was knocked down by a motor car and had both legs fractured, Dr. A. H. Gregson, air orthopaedic surgeon at Doncaster Infirmary, said fractures were so common that they had come to known as bumper fractures.” They are fractures caused by collision with the bumper bar of a car, and such injuries have been caused car travelling at one mile an hour,” he said.

The inquest was on a man known as William Thompson, aged about 65, who for two years had lived in lodging house in Doncaster.

On Christmas Eve he was knocked down by a car when he was crossing the Great North Road at Bentley. The car was driven by Daniel Skidmore, mining surveyor, of Little Houghton, near Barnsley.

A verdict of Accidental death was returned, and the jury said they exonerated the driver of the car from all blame.