A terrible motor accident took place on Salisbury Plain at
half-past one on Thursday morning. A battery of London Territorial Artillery (about a hundred men) arrived at Amesbury Station and proceeded to march to Fargo Camp vid Stonehenge. The Plain was covered by a thick dawn mist, and objects only sixty yards distant were concealed. Under these conditions a motor-car bringing early editions of two morning papers to the camp dashed into the rear of the column, knocking over some forty or fifty men. Ten men were badly injured. One has, we regret to say, since died, another is in a very critical condition, and two other cases are described as serious. As the accident will be the subject of judicial inquiry, we must refrain from comment on the conduct of the driver. We are glad, however, to be able to record the good discipline shown by the battery in very trying circumstances.
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