Saturday 2nd July 1932

Automobile manufacture and designer Fred Duesenberg overturned his Duesenberg car on a wet Lincoln Highway on Ligonier Mountain near Jennerstown, Pennsylvania, apparently at high speed. Mr. Duesenberg was expected to fully recover from the spinal injury and dislocation of the shoulder when pleural pneumonia developed. An oxygen tank brought from Pittsburgh was employed and he again was thought out of danger. Three weeks later he sadly suffered a relapse and died aged 55.