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In 1891, in Ohio City, Ohio , engineer James Lambert was driving one of his inventions, an early gasoline-powered buggy. The buggy, also carrying passenger James Swoveland, hit a tree root sticking out of the ground. Lambert lost control the vehicle crashed into a hitching post. Both men suffered minor injuries.

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