1949 - Highway Safety Commission Lists 1948 Freak Accidents - Bad Place to Sleep

...A Hartford youth, pronounced by police to be under the influence of liquor after he left a tavern at closing time, sprawled out in the middle of the road and remained there after a huge ten-wheel oil tank trailer passed over him. According to the driver, he did not notice the man in the street until he was nearly upon him and, rather than chance a "jack knife" by applying the brakes he decided to straddle the inert youth. Later the youth became abusive when police aroused him and removed him from his "safe" resting place on the pavement...