Nine-year-old Stephen Kempton died, one of the first recorded traffic fatalities in Great Britain


Thursday 23rd September 1897

Nine-year-old Stephen Kempton died, one of the first recorded traffic fatalities in Great Britain. Kempton had been trying to steal a ride from a taxi on Stockmar Road, near Hackney, London by hanging on to a spring, but lost his grip and was trapped underneath the wheel of the vehicle.


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