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The Paris daily Le Figaro of April 18-19 carried the following news item, which seemed ‘tO us not without its moral: _
GE HAVRE, ‘April 17 -- _ The. presence of mind and coolness of a seven-year-old “chauffeur,” made it possible without any doubt to avoid a serious accident,
Mr, Claude Soyer had stopped his car on a street on a steep hill to see’ a merchant of the town, Teaving his son Bruno, 7, in the back seat, Sn mt
He had barely stepped inside the door when the hand brake sud~ denly let go and the car started rolling. Mr. Soyer rushed after it, but he was too late,
All alone inside the car, Bruno, without getting excited, had also understood that it was necessary to act. He grabbed the steering wheel and. succeeded in straightening out the. car, in succession. avoiding.a trolley bus that was climbing the hill, an automobile~ school driver, then a pedestrian, . The little boy had the still greater presence of mind not to go ahead into a-particularly busy street crossing at the bottom of the slope, but to turn into a nearby street where the car, finally losing: its velocity, came to a stop against | another ‘parked vehicle,
Bruno was unharmed.
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