Saturday 12th September 1931
Accident At Boreham Road, Warminster
A serious accident occurred on the Boreham Road, Warminster, on the morning of Saturday 12th September 1931. Brothers Bert and Garf Legg were using a horse-drawn float to deliver milk to the customers of their father Percy Legg, of Home Farm, Boreham. A touring car travelling in the direction of Salisbury, while passing the float, skidded, colliding with the float, and the impact turned the float over. The crash also resulted in a roadside lamp-post being broken off.
Bert and Garf were considerably shaken. Garf Legg was taken to Warminster Cottage Hospital and was treated for a broken arm. Bert, was described as being plucky enough to continue with delivering milk. Unfortunately, the horse was so badly injured that it had to be destroyed on the spot.
The cause of the car skidding was deemed to have been on account of the road surface being extremely greasy. This was doubly emphasised by the fact that another car which had been following the  touring car, also skidded on the greasy surface when the driver attempted to pull up when he saw the touring car colliding with the milk float. This second car struck one of the pavement trees and the car’s windscreen was smashed.