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This story begins with a car crash.

In 1903, a middle-aged British aristocrat was tooling around with a newly bought motor car near Schwalbach, Germany. The driver won George Herbert, the 5th Earl of Carnarvan, was as close as one got to being an experienced motorist in 1903.

The wealthy Lord was one of the first people in Britain to be issued an official driver's license.

By the turn of the century, he had purchased a small fleet of luxury automobiles and had earned the playful nickname Motor Carnarvon for his

unabashed love of the new machines. He also had a reputation for driving fast. In fact, some of the

very first speeding tickets in the history of the United Kingdom were issued to Old Ledfoot Motor Carnarvon.

But that day in the German countryside, Lord Carnarvon's luck ran out.

Traveling, as always, at top speed, Carnarvon crested a hill and was surprised by a farmer whose ox cart

had stalled on the rural road. The Earl swerved and narrowly missed the man and his ox, but the

car care careened off the road and rolled several times before being stopped by a tree. The driver survived, but just barely. He suffered

collapsed lungs, a portion of his skull had been crushed and his jaw had been severely broken.

Miraculously, motor Carnarvon was pulled from the wreck and managed to make a good recovery.

But it would be wrong to call it a full recovery.

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