South Yorkshire Times — Friday, 7 September 1934
Accident
A collision occurred at the junction of the Sheffield-Doncaster road and Ellershaw Road on Monday evening, in which George Alpine, 19, Ivanhoe Road, Balby, and Wm. Carman, Grosvenor Road, Rotherham, were concerned.
Alpine, with his wife as pillion passenger, was driving a motor-cycle from the direction of Doncaster and turned into the Ellershaw Road. The car was proceeding from Hill Top towards Doncaster.
Mr. and Mrs. Alpine were carried by the car for some distance and the motor-cycle was at the front of the car when the vehicle was stopped. Alpine sustained a fracture of the left leg below the knee, and was taken to Doncaster Royal Infirmary and detained.
His wife suffered from abrasions and shock, and after treatment was taken to the home of her father, Mr. F. Lowther, Park Road, Conisboro’.
The driver of the car and his passenger, Wm. E. Walker, of Catcliffe, Rotherham, were slightly injured.