Evening star., 1932-05-02
: INJURED IN MONTGOMERY.
Three of Drivers Involved Are Charged
With ReekIessneSs.
By staf Correspondent Of The Star.

Ihree OF Drivers involved are Cnargeu
With Reeklessness.
BY staff Correspondent of The Star.
ROCKVILLE, Md, May 2.-Seven
persons were injured in automobile
accidents involving 10 automobiles in
Montgomery County yesterday and last
night Charges of reckless driving
have been preferred against drivers of
three of the cars by county police.
Two Washington girls and Wash
ington youth were slightly injured in
the afternoon when a car driven by one
of the girls and a taXicab driven by
on Bradley Boulevard, according to
police.
Jane Cassidy of 3517 Rodman street,
driver of the automobile, and William
p. Cassidy. her brother, end Paula
Weeks, 1916 Rowland place, all of Wash
ington, passengers in the car, received
bruises and lacerations of the face.
They refused hospital treatment. Tay-
lor escaped injury.
According to Officer Windsor Poole OF
Bethesda police, who made an investl-
cation, the car driven by Miss Cassidy
was proceeding south on Bradley Boule-
ward and had just passed parked car
headed in the same direction when her
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SideSWiped.
Within a few minutes after automo-
biles driven by John Burdette of Boyd
and James S. Mason of ClarkSburg had
collided on the Frederick road one-half
mile south of ClarkSburg yesterday
morning, Alice Foreman, colored, OF
this vicinity, was struck and seriously
injured by a machine said to have been
operated by Bert Wolfrey of German
town.
After striking the woman, Wolfrey's
car is said to have run into the auto
of Robert L. Murphy of. Gaithersburg
which was parked alongside the road
as its owner viewed the wreckage caused
by the first collision. and then into the
badly damaged machines Of Burdette
and Mason.
At the time she was struck tie woman
is said to have been approaching and
within so feet Of the scene OF the other
accident. She was given treatment py
DR. Stanley Barber of Gaithersburg and
afterward removed to Georgetown Uni
versity Hospital, in Washington, where
her condition was said to be serious.
Wo.frey is said by police to have fed
Immediately following the accident and
he has not yet been arrested. Charge
of reckless driving has been preferred
against him.
In the car with Wolfrey at the time
were three colored men, who remained
at the scene, according to police.
Automobiles driven by c. F. Bell OF
Martinsburg w. Va, and Phillip Mon
tague, colored, of Harrisburg, Pa, were
in a rear-end collision on the Rock
vile pike three miles south of here
yesterday afternoon, with the result
that Mr. and Mrs. Bell and colored
woman who was in Montague's car
were seriously enough injured to re-
cuire their being taken to the Mont
gomery County General Hospital al
Sandy Spring by the rescue squad OF
the Rockville Fire Department. All
however, are expected to leave the in
stitution today.
According to Policeman Paul Wat
kins, who made an investigation, Bells
car ran into the one operated by Mon
tague, both machines being on theil
way to Washington at the time. Fol-
lowing the impact, Bells auto left the
road. struck tree and came to Stor
. in a nearby field. Montague's car
upset and rolled over several times
No charges were preferred.
Charges of reckless driving were
placed against Walker c. Driver Of
Germantown, Md, and Milton L. Wal
lace of Clarendon, Va, following col
1ision on the Rockville pike last night
The two drivers we're arrested by
Officer Webb Hersperger of Bethesda
police The accident occurred about
half wav between Bethesda and Rock
vile. The occupants of the two cars
escaped injury, according to police.