Evening star., 1934-05-21
WEEK END TRAFFIC
ACCIDENTS |NJURE
Is, THREE BADLY
Frederick Role, 81, Serious
Iy Hurt When Run Down
by Auto.
PENNSYLVANIA WOMAN
is TAKEN TO HOSPITAL
One Victim Injured When Tire
Blowout Causes Car to
0verturn.

Fifteen persons were injured, three
seriously, in traffic accidents yester-
day and last night on crowded high
ways of Washington and vicinity.
Perhaps the most seriously hurt was
Frederick Role, So, of 1910 H street
who suffered a broken leg and nose
wrenched shoulder and possible in
ternal injuries when run down by ar
automobile at Tenth and G streets
last night. The machine was oper'
ated by Joseph Burgis, 80, of the 30(
block of Ninth street northeast.
Role was admitted to Emergency
Hospital
Mrs. Ruth Smith, Al, of WayneS-
boro, Pa, is in serious condition al
Georgetown Hospital with injuries
suffered when an automobile she was
driving along the Rockville pike rar
off the road and overturned twice
Two other persons received lesser
hurts in the mishap, which occurred
when rear tire blew out.
Mrs Smith suffered possible frac-
ture of the vertebrae and conclusion
Of the spine. Roy Everwine, %, alse
of Waynesboro, escaped with abra-
sions of the hands and left leg. and
his wife, Mrs Helen Everwine. %
was bruised about the face, head and
legs The latter'S sister, Annabel
Coffman. IA, was uninjured
Paul Welsh, 49, of Redland, Md
is being treated at the Montgomery
County General Hospital, in Sandy
Spring. for cuts about the head and
a possible fracture of the skull suf-
fered when a car in which he was
riding struck a stalled car on the
Rockville -Poolesville road near Daw-
sonville.
Taken to Hospital.
Wade Magruder, 16, of Westmore
driver of the car in which Welsh wa.
riding, received cuts of the head anc
legs. Both youths were given frs
aid treatment by a Jacksonville ply.
sician and we're carried to the hos.
pital by the Rockville fire rescue
squad
Magruder, according to police, strucl
a car owned by Lewis P Weller o
Beallsville, Md, when the lights o1
a third machine approaching from the
opposite direction blinded him.
A collision at Sixteenth and Ken
nedy streets yesterday resulted in Sc.
we're injuries to Mrs Daphne Coch.
rane, A. of Silver Spring. Md, anc
to Joseph A. Durant, so. of the l7O(
block of Euclid street. Mrs. Cochrane
a passenger in a machine operated
by her husband, Richard K. Cochrane
was treated at Walter Reed Hospita
for a broken ankle, shock and pos
sible internal injuries.
Durant, who was riding with Johr
j. Betton, So, of the Dupont Circle
Apartments. was taken to Garfield
Hospital, where he received treatment
for cuts about the head and shock.
William Hutchinson, 81. of 1OOt
Massachusetts avenue suffered g
broken arm and bruises about tht
body last night, when a motor cyclt
he was riding was in collision al
Fourteenth street and Maryland ave-
nue. northeast with an automobile op.
Grated by Charles Schubert. 500 bloch
OF Fifth street southeast.
Hutchinson was admitted to Casu.
atty Hospital.
Charles w. Wickes, 30, of Orlando
Fla, and Leila Wickes, IS. of the
same address. we're severely shaker
and bruised last night in an auto
mobile collision at Seventeenth anc
Irving streets northeast. The ma.
chine in which they were passengers
was in collision with a delivery truck
operated by Philip F. Milton, 10, ol
1925 Girard street northeast.
Condition Undetermined.
Wickes was in an undetermined
condition at Casualty Hospital today
from shock. Leila Wickes was be.
lieved to have suffered a broken rit
in addition to shock. Their machine
was operated by Samuel L. Lewis, %
also of Orlando.
Two girls and the escort of one OF
them were severely bruised anc
shaken early yesterday when theil
automobile struck a support of the
B. & o. overpass on Rhode IslanC
avenue northeast near Seventh street
Mary Lusby, 18. 2805 Fourth street
northeast; Rose de Meglio, 20, 6le
Girard street northeast, and J. A
Woodside, "a. of Hyattsville, Md.
were treated at Sibley Hispital. The
car was operated by David J. Breer-
wood of Riverdale, Md, who escaped
injury.