Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-29
SECOND CAR DEATH
MAY BRING CHANGE
IN HIGHWAY TRAP
Girl, is, Dies After Motor
Cycle Hits Automobile at
Road Intersection.
CORONER MAY URGE
NEW TH0ROUGHFARE
400 Arrested in Last 4S Hours OF
Traffic Drive-15 Hurt in
A Accidents.

The first fatal traffic accident since
the start of the safety campaign here,
nine days ago, occurred early yester-
day. Virginia Donnelly, 16, Of 1855
wyoming avenue, lost her life when
a motor cycle on which she was rid
ing collided with an automobile driven
by Detective James F. Boxwell of the
twelfth precinct, at Bladensburg road
and Queens Chapel road northeast.
1t was the sixty-fourth trafic death
Of the year.
The spot was the scene of the death
a short while ago, under the same
circumstances, of Traffic Policeman
Raymond v. Sinclair.
The Donnelly girl, recent Powell
Junior High graduate, was riding on
the rear seat of the motor cycle driven
by James Parker, Is, of 10 Seventh
street southeast, whose leg was frac-
tured. The girl died at Casualty Hos
pital at AIS am, a short while after
the accident.
Boxwell was released in custody OF
o precinct officer, pending the inquest.
New Road Suggested.
As result of the accident, Coroner
A. Magruder Macdonald said he may
recommend to District authorities that
a new road be cut through to supplant
Queens Chapel road at its present in
tersection at Bladensburg road. Such
q recommendation, he said, previously
has been made by coroner's jury
which investigated an accident there.
The intersection, DR.. Macdonald said,
makes a dangerous bottle neck"
Traffic Director William A. Van
Duzer and Maj. Brown also are making
studies of the intersection.
Miss Donnelly and Young Parker
had attended wedding shortly before
the tragedy. The girl was the grand
daughter of Mrs. Clara D. McCarter
of the wyoming avenue address, super
intendent of the Fairmont Rest Sana-
forum. Former classmates at the
Powell Junior High School will serve
as pallbearers at the funeral We'd
nesday.
Public Conveyances Attacked.
Maj. Brown issued another special
order on trafic rule observance today.
It was prompted by the personal OBJ
servation and reports street car oper-
ators have not negotiated trafhc lights
correctly. and drivers of buses and
taxicabs have been careless in weav-
ing in and out of traffic. Taxicab
drivers also have been speeding, Maj.
ABrown said.
meanwhile, a total of 400 persons
as arrested here for trafflc violations
kduring the 48-hour period from am.
Saturday to 8 am. today. OF these,
1924 were arrested in the "a hours
ending at 8 a M today and 366 in the
previous "a hours OF the total for
the two days, IS were arrested for
speeding, SO for passing red lights,
S for reckless driving and for driv-
ing while drunk.
A total of Is persons was injured
in A accidents here over the week
end, with being hurt In 26 accidents
yesterday. OF those injured, only
young Parker was believed badly so.
Hit-Run Case Reported.
Police today were holding a colored
man for investigation in connection
with hit-and-run automobile which
struck a motor cycle at Ninth and o
streets late yesterday, sending Karl
IN re- nf C,Irohor1o nd
Md. passenger on the motor cycle,
to the hospital with wrenched back.
In Maryland, one person was drown
ed in an automobile accident, while
in that State and nearby Virginia.
The death was that of Isabella Jack
son, As, colored, of Berryville, Md.
The automobile in which she was rid
ing overturned near Seneca and rolled
down a 12-foot embankment into
Hooks Branch. Carroll Driver, COL
ored, operator Of the car and the wom-
ans daughter Anna, escaped injury.
Driver was held by county police for
investigation.
Virginians Are Hurt.
Thurman Fincham. East Falls
Church, Va, and Thomas Sisk, Ches-
Textbook, Va, are In the Fauquier
Hospital at Warrenton with injuries
received on the road near Jefferson
ton, where they ran into parked car
Three Elkton, Va, youths were in
jured last night, perhaps seriously,
when their car missed a bridge 10
miles south of Luray and crashed into
a brick wall. Those injured were
Leo Lam, 10; Joseph Haney, 10. and
Amos Morris, 20. They were uncon-
scious when taken to 8 hospital, where
it was found they had received prob
able internal injuries.
Kenneth D. McRae, Washington,
manager of the L. c. Smith Type
writer Co., and two other employees
of the concern were injured in col
lision on the Marlboro Pike yesterday.
Two Receive Cuts.
McRae, who lives at West Thorn
apple street, Chevy Chase, Md, was
badly cut about the chin. Albert
ReLtSCACL, cSlo ClISt ctICCt oouIliCuct,
suffered cuts about the face, while
willard A. King, 6517 Ridgewood
avenue, Chevy Chase, Md, driver OF
the car, was severely bruised.
Mrs. Vera M. Binger, 40, of Upper
Marlboro, Nd, was taken to Casualty
Hospital with q possible fracture OF
the left shoulder after being struck
by a hit-and-run driver on the
Landover road.
Lansdale G. Clagett, Prince Georges
County member of the Maryland
House of Delegates. and Capt. Joseph
G. Cissel, attorney to the Montgomery
county treasurer. escaped injury when
their cars collided near Brandywine.
Both machines were damaged.
Joseph Shapiro, 80, Of the 500 block
of Princeton place received q frae-
tured thigh in an accident on the
Grain highway.