Evening star., 1940-12-29
Fourth Young Victim
OF Fairfax Crash
Dies in Hospital
Few Mishops in District;
Four Persons Injured
In Heud-On Collision

William Remington, IA, 1920 Otis
place NE, died last night in
Georgetown Hospital, the fourth
youthful victim of a traffic accident
on the Lee highway near Fairfax,
Va. December /.
The Remington boy died about
7:20 pm. from complications re-
sulting from the burns he received
in the crash. Two other young
sters died in the flaming wreckage-
trapped in the baggage compart-
ment-and a third succumbed in
Alexandria Hospital a short time
later.
The wreck involved three cars
in all, Fairfax County police said.
Six persons were sent to hospitals
for various injuries.
Few Accidents in District.
On District streets, automobiles
crept slowly through the foggy night,
and few serious crashes were re-
ported. Two colored women re-
ceived treatment for injuries suf-
fered in an accident at Third and
c streets SW.
They were Mildred Tyler, "a, 200
block of Fourteenth street NE, and
Hattie Williams. %, 400 block of
Ninth street Sc. Both were re-
moved to Providence and released
short time later.
-Four persons were treated at
Emergency Hospital for injuries
sustained in a head-on collision in
the 1900 block of Columbia pike,
Arlington County, Va.
Mrs. Daisy Bannon, So, of Airing
ton Village Apartments. was ad-
mltted to the hospital suffering
lacerations of the face and contu-
sions about the arms. Her hus-
band, Charles Bannon. 66, was
treated for decorations about the
face and released.
The occupants of the second car,
w. H. Wise, Sc, and Mrs. Jobelle
Wise, 80, of 1908 South Ninth street,
Arlington, were treated for lacera-
tions and released.
Woman Driver Freed.
Official investigation of the Capi-
tails twenty-fifth traffic fatality of
the year, which occurred MAY 26,
finally was completed yesterday
when a coroner's jury termed the
death accidental and released a "a
year-old woman driver.
After hearing inquest testimony
indicating the pedestrian victim,
Vincent Bergin, %. of 3218 Wiscon-
sin avenue NV, was walking out
side a crosswalk and against a red
traffic light when he and his wife,
Mrs. Kay M. Bergin, 81, were struck
the night of May Is at Connecticut
and Nebraska avenues NV, the
jury freed Miss Alice c. Erickson, a
secretary, of 1927 Monroe street NV
Miss Erickson testified she drove
through the intersection on a green
light at moderate speed but did
not notice the couple until the car
was upon them. She said a con-
centration of store and service sta
ton lights near the crossing and
shadows cast by foliage might have
been responsible for her failure to
see the pedestrians sooner.
Mrs. Bergin still was confined to
her home with injuries received in
the accident, so the jury heard Cor
oner A. Magruder Macdonald read
a deposition in which she declared
she could not remember anything
that took place Immediately prior
to the accident.
Tree Blocks Traffic.
Traffic was blocked for approxi-
mately 20 minutes last night in
the 1900 block of California street
NV, when a tree, about 10 inches
in diameter and 40 feet tall, which
had rotted at its base, fell over a
parked automobile.
The trunk of the tree was leaning
against the automobile, which police
said belongs to Clarence E. Arm
strong, 1907 California street NV,
with its branches touching automo-
biles and the sidewalk on the oppo-
site side of the street, when firemen
arrived to remove it.
Robert Krebs, 40, was killed and
four men injured today when their
car struck bridge abutment and
rolled into stream on the Phila-
delphia road mile south of Havre
de Grace, Md, according to the As
sociated Press.
The men, all from Hayre de Grace,
were en- route to work at Edgewood
Arsenal. Police said Mr.. Krebs, the
driver, apparently turned to avoid
another car, and the machine skid
! ded.