Bridget Driscoll
(1851-1896)
First pedestrian victim of an automobile collision
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Bridget Driscoll (1851 – 17 August 1896) was the first pedestrian victim of an automobile collision in the United Kingdom. As she and her teenage daughter May and her friend Elizabeth Murphy crossed Dolphin Terrace in the grounds of the Crystal Palace in London, Driscoll was struck by an automobile belonging to the Anglo-French Motor Carriage Company that was being used to give demonstration rides. One witness described the car as travelling at "a reckless pace, in fact, like a fire engine".
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1851
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17 August 1896 (aged 45)
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