Morris Lee Ledbetter had a close call Monday morning with death when Cotton Belt fast passenger train No. 2 from Ft. Worth struck the car he was driving on the crossing west of the Stewart filling station. He escaped with scratches on his arm, bruises on the back and a severe shaking-up which hurt his back.
Morris is the son of Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Ledbetter who reside west of town and he had been to Carrollton to bring his sisters to school and was returning home. He says he did not think of of the train and did not see or hear it, tho the visibility is good there and one can see the track a long distance. The engineer whistled long and loud for the crossing and the oncoming car especially we are told, and yet the boy failed to observe.
When the crash came it struck the Ford touring car back of the center, Morris was thrown out of the car and about thirty feet northwest to a fence, the car turning to the side of the track and pieces of it being carried some eighty feet eastward along the truck. This crossing is in town and a large crowd soon gathered; the engineer backed-up the train, after stopping, to see what damage had been done and how the drive of the car fared. After seeing this and that he was cared for the train resumed its journey.
Morris was carried back to town by Dr. Blackburn, or Joe, in Joe's car and was cared for. It certainly is amazing that Morris escaped death in an accident of this character.

The Carrollton Chronicle - Friday, October 17, 1930
Submitted by Edward Lynn Williams