Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1924-09-26
F D c IS CAUSE
Of ACCIDENTS
ON NBR|DCE HERE
Robert ReiIIey in Hospital
Seriously Injured-Bus
Figures in Accident
so. AMBOY GIRL HURT
Oil Truck, Bus and Farm
Truck Involved-0thers
Hurt in Collisions

Two persons were injured, one
seriously, on the draw of the state
bridge during heavy fog this morn
ing. A crowded bus running from
Keyport and South Amboy to this
city, and a vegetable truck figured
in the collision and only one Of the
bus passengers was injured.
A Standard Oil Company truck In
charge of Robert f. Reilly, Jr.,
thirty-nine, of 20S Broad street, was
parked on the right side of the draw
facing south and Reilly was deliver
ing gasoline to the engine room
above the left side of the draw.
Reilly Is seriously injured.
Albert Vanderbilt, of Keyport, was
driving a vegetable truck south on
the bridge. The truck Is the prop
erty of John and Thomas Collins,
trading as the Farmers Trucking
Company, of Keansburg. Coming
north on the state structure was the
Perth Amboy-Keyport bus in charge
of Albert Jerome of South Amboy.
On account of the fog Vanderbilt
did not see the parked truck until
he was almost upon 1t, and then he
swerved quickly to the left, meeting
the bus almost head-on. The bus
swerved to the right and pinned
Reilly to the railing on the left side,
and as a result of the collision thir-
teen-year-old Nellie Sedusky, of
Ridgeway avenue, South Amboy, was
| knocked from the bus. She received
a severe laceration of the forehead
and after being attended by DR..
Henry was removed to her home.
Doctors Called
When the first call of the accident
was received at headquarters 1t was
believed that at least one person had
been killed and many Others in
jured. Several physicians were sent
to the scene.
Reilly, seriously injured, was
taken to the hospital in a passing
automobile and his condition was
such that DIR. M. S. .Meinzer could
not give him a thorough examina-
tion at once. II Is said that he is
suffering from conclusion of the
brain, pains in the lower, part of the
back, abrasions of the face and
back, and a cut on the head. He
also had a bad cut on the hip and
may be injured internally,
Sergeant John Larson and Police
Chauffeur William Buchan were de-
tailed from headquarters by Lieu
| tenant Andrew Jensen, and the SER
geant obtained statements from the
persons figuring in the accident
while Chauffeur Buchan directed
| traffic, the accident having caused a
| tieup. Later Sergeant Larson went
| to the hospital to learn the condition
of the injured man and to see II
! immediate arrests were necessary.
A summons was given to Wander
| bilt by Sergeant Larson for driving
a truck without a drivers license OF
without registration card. He will
come before the recorder at o'clock
| tomorrow morning.
| The bus was damaged consider
ably as q result of the accident and
| the steering gear of the vegetable
truck was affected by the collision.
Man In Hospital
Andrew Lesko, forty years old, OF
372 Fayette street, Is in the local
hospital suffering with a deep lacer-
alton of the left leg. as result OF
having been struck by the automo-
bile of Chris Fries, Of Oak street
on Smith street, yesterday evening
Lesko and another man were cross
| ing the street when the accident hap.
pened, and the driver of the car re-
ported the affair to Lieutenant John
Morris. DR.. Henry first attended the
injured man and Mr.. Tyrrell is now
attending him at the hospital.