Evening star., 1932-11-06
GIRL THROWN OUT
OF AUTO IN CRASH
Hurled Through Windshield
When Car Is SidesWiped.
Eight Others Hurt.

Miss Leona Drewry, %. Richmond,
was injured last night when the auto
mobile in which she was riding, after
being sideswiped by hit-and-rln car
at Bladensburg road and Thirtieth
street northeast, swerved into another
machine, then careened across a lawn
and crashed into the wall of a house,
throwing her through the windshield.
Six other persons narrowly escaped
injury In the accident. which was one
Of four that occurred in or near Wash
ington yesterday. Eight persons were
hurt. two of them seriously, in the
other mishaps. There also were
number Of minor accidents.
Miss Louise Baker. 25, also Of Rich
mond, driver of the automobile in
was charged with reckless driving by
NTH precinct police. Released on $500
bond, she was ordered to appear in
Police Court tomorrow.
Car Crashes Into Wall.
Miss Baker declared her car, headed
into the city, got out of control when
hit by another machine, which sped
away. She said her automobile swerved,
collided with a car operated by Mrs.
Ruth Hellwig. %, Of 1173 Morse street
northeast, then mounted the curb,
crossed the lawn and crashed into the
wall Of 2615 Thirtieth street northeast.
Cut about the head and left leg, Miss
Drewry was taken to Casualty Hospital.
where physicians said her condition
was not serious.
Five Of those who escaped injury also
were riding with Miss Baker. They are
M. D. Baker and Samuel Byrd Vaughn
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necticut avenue, and Miss Carol Baker,
2007 I street. Mrs. Hellwig, who was
alone, likewise was unhurt.
Other Accident Victims.
The victims of the other accidents
are Walter j. Binks, 10, Of the 800
block Of Sixth street; his sister, Jean,
5; their mother, Mrs. Isabelle J. Binks;
Rae D. Conklin, 5000 block Of Newark
street; his wife, Mrs. Marie L. Conklin;
Robert Creel, 18, Of the 500 block Of
Fifth street northeast: Miss Isabel Cecil
Williams, As, of the 1900 block of
Lamont street, and William Saunders,
IS, colored, Deanwood, D. C.
The Binks and Conklin families were
hurt when their machines crashed into
truck parked on the Washington
Baltimore Boulevard, near Laurel.
Young Binks was the most seriously
injured. He and the other passengers
in the car. which is said to have been
driven by Conklin, were taken to Provi-
dence Hospital after receiving emerg-
ency treatment from a physician liv-
ing near the scene of the mishap. The
truck, according to State Police Corpl.
c. w. Cubbage, was operated by w. w.
Arnold, Baltimore.
Creel suffered fractured shoulder
and serious head injury when his au-
tomobile crashed into a stone wall. at
Seventeenth and l. streets after he
swerved it to avoid crash with taxi
cab. Miss Williams, teacher at Tenn
pie School. received head cut when
the taxicab, driven by Harry o. Dodson,
1400 block of Park road, came to
sudden stop. She was given first aid
by q physician in the neighborhood, but
Creel was taken to George Washington
University Hospital.
Saunders was hit by a w., B. q A.
train at Forty-fourth street and Dean
avenue northeast Physicians at Cas-
ualty said he was suffering from q pos
sible skull fracture and q compound
fracture of the right arm. Police said
the car, which dragged Saunders 80
or 40 feet, was operated by William
Cook, Baltimore.