My sister in law could have been part of that accident. She and her daughter were driving different cars and mom was following. She actually managed to rear end her daughter. 
This is what cars looked like in 1895:
The pic that accompanies that post is probably from the late '20s-early '30s.
Those cars look a LOT newer than cars available in 1895, imo
That is what I was thinking…
Don’t ask me who or when but maybe 40 years ago an old timer was telling about a neighbor who had switched from horses to a car. He put in a second door on his barn so he could drive right through if he couldn’t get the car stopped the first time. Kept yelling whoa but the car wouldn’t stop. Change is hard.
Almost as bad as backing into kids car in driveway.
Poetic license. The pic and caption are still funny.
The first auto insurance policy was purchased in Dayton Ohio in 1897 by Gilbert Loomis. He bought the policy from Travellers
Then the name Clueless was introduced to the Oxford dictionary.
Indeed. You can often find “stories” where the pics were pulled from elsewhere. Let’s grant the “story” that Ohio had all of two cars in 1895 that had an accident (even though maybe not), it’s doubtful that anyone was around with a camera to take a picture.
If the story is true (well, and even it wasn’t), it is a funny pic.
I think it was a joke. Not meant to be taken seriously. Obviously the cars are not 1895 models.
It was meant as a joke. Didn’t really care if it was real or not. Just thought it was funny AND car related. But it would be hilarious if it were true.
According to Snopes, they have been unable to find any documentation of such an event. Cars were new and unusual in 1895, so one would think that Ohio newspapers would have reported on that event, but none of them did.
Fooled me. I thought it was true, so I forwarded it to my brother in law. Now I feel dumb.
Oh, hi, oh no! It’s a fairly big state though if you ever tried to drive across it.
I’ve driven it many times north to south and back after Nam and was stationed in Ft Campbell KY. It’s an extremely boring ride form the NY boarder to KY.
It seems even bigger when you’re crossing it during a heavy snow storm.
In–I think–1982, I had to drive across Ohio in order to visit friends in St. Clair Shores, MI. The weather forecast called for just flurries, but it turned-out to be a heavy snow storm.
During my extremely long drive across the state on the Ohio Turnpike, I encountered no snow plows whatsoever, and traffic was reduced to one lane that had been forged by the 18-wheelers. The median was littered with Jeeps whose drivers thought that they were invincible. I never got out of 2nd gear the entire time, but my stick shift Citation–with snow tires–performed like a champ. When I finally got to my destination in MI, the front of the Citation was encased in a coating of ice almost 2 inches thick.
I wonder if the state of Ohio ever got around to purchasing snow plows, because they certainly didn’t have any (or they didn’t have the sense to deploy any of them) in the winter of 1982.
And now we have vehicles that go 0-60 instantly amd its still not enough for many people. Always In A hurry as I am sure the were back then.
The autombile has done nothing bit caused us to speed around and rush everywhere. Granted back in horse and buggy days people would “rough ride” the horses which was hard on the horse and the buggy, frequently resulting in a broken axle on the buggy or a broken leg on the horse.
But people persist in their ways. Speedy speedy.
Were the roads better cleaned in Michigan?