Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-23
PAPERS PUbL|C|zE.
ACCIDENT HORRORS.
All Gruesome Details OF
New York Fatalities
Are Printed.

" - And Sudden Death" re-
Gently appeared in the Readers Dr.
oest and ,Uds reprinted in The Star
and many other newspapers. 1t re-
counted automobile accidents real
istically instead OF Satisfactorily.
Neu York papers are beginning TO
tell OF auto accidents realistically,
as related in the following story.
49, And Sudden Death" tDdS NOT
nice reading: neither is this story,
but it is presented as one OF the
slams OF the times and in WeD OF
The Stars campaign dgtnSt auto
sr,dsh-ups.
BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, September %
And sudden death.
Two Young men were killed and
three persons severely injured Wnen
their car crashed through guard
rail protecting an express highway and
dropped into street 80 feet below
Saturday.
But the newspapers didn't tell 1t
that way.
Sudden death" ran two-column
story on the first page Of one news
paper, with heads smashed to pulp
and bones snapped like toothpicks
came to two men at 4 am. on the
West Side elevated highway.
Blood Surrounded Them.
1.-THE mems heads were split open.
One mans skull was mashed down
almost to his ears. Blood spattered
five or six feet around them. Blood
spurted from their wounds, too.
IAN attractive girl, l8, struck few
feet from the men. But she wasn't
dead. She lay weakly splitting out
teeth and blood. She may live
but her face may be twisted with
scars"
Every afternoon newspaper in New
York played this lone auto accident for
a column or more. Gruesome photo
graphs supplemented the tale and
pointed the moral without benefit OF
editorial.
-. And sudden death.
A magazine article Of that title
In which automobile accidents were
translated into broken bodies and
smashed heads instead of statistics
appeared recently.
Sordid Facts to Be Told.
1t was reprinted in New York. One
newspaper. in commenting editorially
said that no longer would auto acct
i,,,t- he relaooted IN Obscure Secti0pS
but that every sordid fact Of motor
killings, no matter how bloody, would
be told in detail.
That is why today, in a State
where some one is killed every three
hours and one person injured by autos
every five minutes. New York Citys
100000 inhabitants have found chill
ing details Of automobile accidents
and even more horrifying pictures
given newspaper display above a gang
ster shooting.
The new type of reporting was only
one development in the MIDST of an
intensive campaign by police, traffic
judges and civic organizations against
auto fatalities.
Rigid Examinations Urged.
New York doctors. speaking through
the New York Medical Weekly, sug-
gest to the State that potential motor
lists undergo rigid physical examina-
tons before they are issued driving
licenses.
Over the week end huge crowds
gathered in Times Square, up and
down Broadway and on Sixth avenue
to view dummy" accidents realist-
ically planned by New York's police.
Mounted on huge trucks were smashed
automobiles, dummy" men and wom-
en- hanging out Of the windows. Squads
OF patrolmen, acting on orders from
Police Commissioner Valentine, dis
tributed educational literature on a
safety campaign to the pedestrians.