The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-29
PIANCES HURT IN AUTO SMASH.
GIRL FLUNG 12 FEET REVIVES
AND CARES FOR ESCORT.
New Machine Struck Trolley Car q CHANGING
HOW on steep Bronx Grade n Was
Upset-Fell on Owner, whose skuIi
Is Fractured Were 10 We'd I'm July.

Upset Eel on owner, whose Skull
IL Fractured Were 10 Wed in July.
Charles de Lukasavics, a former Hun
garian army Officer, now a mechanical
engineer in this city, living at 4ls Central
Park West, was badly injured last night
when his automobile crashed into q trolley
car at fremont and Crotona avenues, The
Bronx. In the automobile with Lukasavics
was Miss Geraldine Kendall, 10 years old,
who lives with her mother at 2i29 Hughes
avenue, The Bronx. She was thrown
from the automobile and received a severe
scalp wound in addition to bad bruises
about the body.
The young couple were driving the machine
along Crotona avenue and took the hill
leading down to fremont avenue at a fast
clip. They did not see an east bound Ire
mont trolley car approaching, and crashed
into it. Lukasavics attempted to steer
clear of the car when he saw it and the
result was that the auto struck the car
glanoing and turned over. Lukasavics
was pinned under the machine. Miss
Kendall was tossed into the air and fell
heavily twelve feet away.
The motorman quickly stopped the car
and with the conductor n passengers
ran back to aid the injured. The autom o.
bile was lifted up and Lukasavics was
dragged from beneath it unconscious
Miss Kendall was also unconsci GUS. A
hurry call for an ambulance was sent to
Fordham Hospital, but before the ambu-
lance arrived Miss Kendall had recover ed
consciousness and hurried to the side Of her
injured escort. BY the time the ambulance
arrivedLukasavics had recovered conscious
ness also, although he was in a badly dazed
condition.
DR.. Taft, the ambulance surgeon, ex-
press ed the opinion that the young man
was s~ufferingfrom conclusion of the brain
and poss IDLY a fracture Of the skull besides
severe Commissions. He also said that Miss
r endall was severely hurt, and he wasn't
sure that a bad cash on the back Of her head
was not more serious than a scalp wound.
DR. Taft insisted on taking both to the
hospital, but Miss Kendall wouldn't listen to
this. She got a small boy to summon a coach
from a livery stable nearby, and bundling
Lukasavics into it and getting in herself
she ordered the driver to hurry to her home.
There the family physician was summoned,
and by the time he had arrived Miss Rem
dali was in a state of collapse.
The young girls father, George Kendall,
a consulting engineer, accompanied Luka-
savics to his apartment, and on reaching
there summoned the young mans physician,
DR.. Louis Friedman of POS West ll2th street.
The physician found that the young mans
right ankle had been fractured, that he
probably had a fracture of the skull and
ssyere decorations and-aontHsions about
the arms and body At a late. hour his
condition was quite critical.
Lukasavics is 81 years old He and Miss
Kendall are engaged to be married, Inc the
wedding was set for next month. The
young man lives in bachelor apartments.
He has been in the country three years.
The automobile was purchased by Luka-
savics only six days ago and was a brand
new one of high quality. 1t was badly
wrecked.