Croydon's Weekly Standard, April 28th 1866

ACCIDENT.- On Thursday evening the 19th instant, an accident of a rather serious nature happened at this station; a Miss Gunn, sister to Mrs. Congreve of Stony Stratford, was riding in a carriage, and when crossing the locomotive bridge at Wolverton, the shrill whistle of an engine so frightened the horse, that it started off at a rapid rate down the hill, by the Radcliffe Arms Inn, and when having arrived nearly opposite Mr. Radcliffe’s house on the Newport road, the driver did all he could to turn the horse towards Haversham, but was unable to do so, for the animal jumped at the hedge, leaving the carriage turned over and throwing the driver on the ground with fearful violence; the horse galloped away to the river, but was eventually caught. Mr. Rogers, surgeon, of Wolverton, was quickly on the spot, and found that the lady’s arm was broken and the coachman fearfully shaken, but in the course of half an hour he was able to walk with assistance; the lady was conveyed to Stratford as quickly as possible, in company with Dr. Rogers.