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Sept. 13, 1899: New Yorker Becomes First U.S. Pedestrian Killed by Car
1899: Henry Bliss becomes the first pedestrian known to be killed by an automobile in North America.Bliss, a Manhattan real estate salesman, had just stepped off a streetcar at West 74th Street and Central Park West (a few blocks south of the American Museum of Natural History) when he was struck by a passing taxicab. It knocked [...]
