Street accident fatality
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| A roadside plaque unveiled on 25 February 1969 states that the first recorded motor accident in Great Britain to have involved the death of the car driver took place at Harrow on the Hill on a road called Grove Hill seventy years earlier, on 25 February 1899.<ref name=Autocar197209>{{cite magazine|title =Pillars and Posts| series = 137|magazine=[[Autocar (magazine)|Autocar]] | volume = (nbr 3985)| page =12|date = 14 September 1972 }}</ref> The plaque makes no mention of the name of the dead motorist, but it does name the civic dignitary who unveiled it: ''his'' name is given as Alderman Charles Stenhouse, who was Mayor of [[London Borough of Harrow|Harrow]] at the time.<ref name=Autocar197209/> | A roadside plaque unveiled on 25 February 1969 states that the first recorded motor accident in Great Britain to have involved the death of the car driver took place at Harrow on the Hill on a road called Grove Hill seventy years earlier, on 25 February 1899.<ref name=Autocar197209>{{cite magazine|title =Pillars and Posts| series = 137|magazine=[[Autocar (magazine)|Autocar]] | volume = (nbr 3985)| page =12|date = 14 September 1972 }}</ref> The plaque makes no mention of the name of the dead motorist, but it does name the civic dignitary who unveiled it: ''his'' name is given as Alderman Charles Stenhouse, who was Mayor of [[London Borough of Harrow|Harrow]] at the time.<ref name=Autocar197209/> |
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