Evening star., 1941-05-03
Pedestrian, 50,
And Girl Killed
In Accidents
Traffic Toll Goes
To 29, Increase Of
II Over Lost Year

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District traffic this year stood today
at 29--an increase of II over this
time in 1940-with the death late
Yesterday of a 5-year-old child,
struck by a loaded sand truck.
An unidentified pedestrian, about
so, also was fatally injured last night
as he walked on Georgia avenue be-
yond the District line. Police were
searching today for an old model
automobile, with damaged right
headlight, thought to have been in
volved
The sand truck hit Phyllis Crabbe,
colored, of 1416 Carrollburg street
S.W., as she ran from behind a
parked car in the 1400 block of South
Capitol street, police said. The
driver. they stated, gave his name as
James H. Banks, Al, colored, of 2O3O
Eighth street NV, He was held for
action of the coroner's jury.
Early police reports yesterday said
that the striking vehicle was a con-
crete mixer, and the home edition OF
The Star carried this misinforma-
ton. Later editions stated that the
sand truck was involved.
Found Lying on Road.
Montgomery County police said
the 5O-year-old man was found lying
with fractured legs and crushed
head on the east side of Georgia
avepue at Locust Grove road, point
where the avenue has no sidewalk.
Broken glass was scattered at the
scene
The victim, dead on arrival at
Washington Sanitarium, was de-
scribec as feet II inches tall, with
brown hair, index finger and nail
part of middle finger on left hand
missing, wearing brown coat, striped
brown trousers, and high black shoes
newly half-soled. Black trimmed
spectacles were found near the
body. The man was removed later
to the Warner Pumphrey funeral
home 8424 Georgia avenue.
Walter Bickford. II. of Cheverly,
Md, was in undetermined condition
at Emergency Hospital today after
the automobile he was operating
! smashed into a pile of dirt at the
traffic circle at the intersection Of
Routes 215 and I'll, in Fairfax, Va,
police said.
County police said the auto was
! demolished by the impact. 1t was
/ necessary, they said, to lift the
ruined auto from the youths body
after it had overturned on him.
The Fairfax County ambulance
brought the injured youth to the
hospital.
Three Bicyclists Hurt.
/ Leroy Hodge. II, of R. F. D. No. 2,
Anacostia, was rushed to Casualty
Hospital from Allentown, Md, with
a compound fracture of his left arm,
a conclusion, shock and lacerations
suffered in an accident late yester4
day, District police reported.
Three bicyclistS were injured last
night in various parts of the city.
Cornelius Miles, 46, of the 400 block
of First street S.W., was taken to
Providence Hospital with fractured
hip after his cycle colided with a
truck at Fourth and F streets S.W,
Robert Steinback, 8. 1921 Seventh
street NE, was in a collision with
an auto in the 600 block of Franklin
street NE. police said. and was
taken to Sibley HoSpitaPwith shoul-
der and jaw injuries. Robert Burch,
10, 1928 V street Sc, went to Prov
idence with lacerations and abra-
Sons when his bicycle and an auto
collided near his home.
Police said an automobile which
was forced into a street car loading
platform by truck seriously in
jured two persons at Thirtieth and
M streets NV. late yesterday.
They we're Marshall Miller, 72, o1
the 1900 block of Thirty sixth street
NV, taken to Emergency Hospita
with a possible skull fracture, anc
Barbara Hills, "a, of 3017 Dunbar.
ton avenue NV, removed Il
Georgetown University Hospital with
a compounds right leg fracture.
Pedestrian Hit.
Internal injuries were suffered by
Livingston Gerhart, 81, of 920 Evart.
street NE, police said, when he wa,
struck by an automobile last night
in the 2100 block of Thirty seventh
street NV. He was admitted Il
Georgetown University Hospital.
Madeline c. Beckwith, So, colored
1900 block of Fourth street NV, wal
injured when the car she was driv.
ing was in a collision with bus al
Third and T streets NV, police re.
: ported. A bus passenger, Edwarc
Jackson. 36, colored, of the 1900 blocl
Of Third street NV. received minol
injuries, it was stated. Both wert
taken to Casualty Hospital.
Four-year-ol Anthony ]. Fitz'
gerald, 1924 Eleventh street NV
was treated at Garfield Hospital TO,
a nose injury received when strucl
by vehicle as he ran across tht
HOO block of Euclid street NV, DO.
lice declared.
Odis Johnson, SO, colored, of tn,
100 block of L street NV. was strucI
by the side of a taxi last night il
the 100 block of New York avenu,
NV, police said. He was taken II
Casualty Hospital for head injuries