Evening star., 1929-06-25
Director HarIand Calls on
Police After Four
Fatal Mishaps.
MRS. IRVING HENDERSON
AMONG CRASH VICTIMS
Inquests Are Ordered to Be Held
When Witnesses Can
Be Present.
Aroused by the deaths Of four persons

Aroused by the deaths of four persom
in traffic accidents yesterday, Traffic
Director William H. Harland today an.
nounced he would appeal to the Polick
Department to conduct special cru.
sade against reckless and careless
drivers and other fragrant violators OF
the trafic regulations.
Mr.. Harland made arrangements for
conference with Mai Henry G.. Pratt,
superintendent of police, at which he
plans to discuss the traffic situation In
detail and map out safety campaign.
The traffic director said his recent
appeal 90 motorists to drive more eau
tiousiy apparently had fallen upon deaf
ears for since its pronouncement traffic
accidents had increased instead OF
decreased.
"There has to be tightening up all
along the line" said Mr.. Hariand.
Motorists have got to drive more care
fully. There are entirely too many
accidents, and most of them are due
to carelessness, either on the part OF
the driver or the pedestrian.
"I cannot enforce the trafhc regula-
tions," he said. "That Is the duty of
the Police Department. And / am
confident Mai. Pratt will cooperate in
special campaign of safety. Some
thing must be done to alleviate present
conditions. If the drivers will not vol
unfairly aid in reducing the traffic toll,
perhaps the arrest of all those who
fiaunt the regulations may bring about
an Improvement.
''Too Much Speeding"
"There IS too much speeding, too
much reckless driving, and too much
corner cutting. Drivers should know
how to adjust speed to conditions. In
congested sections, or even in residen-
tial communities where cars are parked
solidly along the curb, common sense
should tell motorist to drive cautious
ly. since a child or even q pedestrian
may dart out unexpectedly from behind
one of the parked cars. The pedeS-
trians should know better than to DO
this, but it is obvious that some of them
do not, or care little for their lives. .
Statistics complied for Mr.. Hafland
by er,1ployes of the Trafic Department
show there were i29 accidents IN the
District in the week ending yesterday
a record that has seldom been eqlaled
| In the pass Six persons were killed ID
these accidents and rs were injured.
AS plans to cope with the rising to1
of accidents we're being made tnls'
morning, 6-year-old Richard Buck, 20
Seventh street southeast, was run down
by an automobile at Sixth and Penn
sylvania avenue southeast. The ma
chine was operated by Raymond Dono-
van, aged 26, of 80 New York avenue.
and the police reported that the boy
ran before his car from behind parked
automobile. Physicians at Sibley Hos
pital said Richard suffered a fractured
skull In addition to cuts and bruises.
Mrs. Alice Kinsley Henderson, 1858
Monroe street, wife of an automobiie
salesman, was one of three persons
killed in traffic accidents yesterday eve
ming. which crictically injured three
others, two of them policemen.
Clifton Floyd Kirkpatrick OF 222S
Thirty-fifth street, was absolved o
blame by a coroner's jury in connec'
of Isiah Thomas, 10-year-old colored
boy. who was run down and fataliT
injured by Kirkpatrick's truck at NeN
JERSEY avenue and e street. The jury
returned verdict of accidental death.
According to police, the boy was rid
ing his bicycle and was attempting to
cross the intersection when struck by
the truck.
Mrs. Henderson was fatally injured
when q collision hurled her from the
seat Of a small coupe onto the sidewalk
at Twelfth and Water streets south
west.
The machine in which she was q
passenger, driven by Charles Kenneth
Francis, A, of 1905 Eighteenth street,
an accountant in the Office of the Geo..
logical Survey. was going east on Water
street at the time.
Collides With Taxicab.
At Twelfth street it was in collision
with a taxicab driven by Norman S.
Clark, 30, of BallSton, Va. and owned
by the Black & White Taxicab Co.
The force of the impact tore away
part of the body of the Francis ma
chine.
When picked up from the street Mrs.
Hendersons shattered wrist watch
marked 5:55 o'clock. She was placed
in motor truck operated by George
Shaffer. 608 Tenth street southwest,
and taken to Emergency Hospital.
where she died a few minutes after
arrival without regaining CONSCIOUSNESS.
Francis was treated at the same time
for decorations about the head and face.
but his condition was not regarded as
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