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55 years ago…
November 23, 1951 – A one-legged hitchhiker’s request for “something to eat and a ride” ends up in his death and the hospitalization of another man. Charles Aldy is killed and Jessie Eberhardt is injured when his late model convertible fails to make a sharp curve on Memorial Highway. Aldy had approached Eberhardt in downtown Tampa and asked him for a meal and a ride, so the two went to a restaurant on Memorial Highway for some food and beers. Returning to Tampa, Eberhardt told police that he took the 110-degree curve on Memorial at roughly 70 miles per hour. A reflection warning of the curve was not visible and Eberhardt failed to recognize the danger in time.
Courtesy of the Tampa Bay History Center.
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