Evening star., 1946-11-08
; Bus Crashes,
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Car Accidents
Hurt D Here
Injured Girl Lies
20 Minutes in Rain
Awaiting Ambulance

Awaiting Ambulance
Fog and rain, which made pave
ments wet and slippery, were con-
tributing causes in a series Of traf-
fic accidents late yesterday after
noon and evening which resulted In
injuries to at least % persons.
Capital Transit buses. police said
were involved in three accidents
one of which resulted in injury to 1a
people.
A 19-year-old girl. hit by a car,
lay on the pavement in the rain at
Eleventh street and Pennsylvania
avenue NV. for 20 minutes await
ing an ambulance. She was shield
ed from the drizzle by a raincoat
and a newspaper held by soldier
Automobile Hits Bus.
The Is were injured at Delaware
avenue and Canal street S,W. when
according to police, an automobile
operated by Benjamin o. Williams
colored, 28, of Route 2, Vienna, Va.
crashed into the side of a bus driven
by Alvah T. Snyder, As, Of 1444 w
street Sc. Mr.. Williams was charged
with colliding.
The seven injured bus passen-
gers, all treated at Providence Hos
pital and released, were listed by
police as:
Sidney Golden, 4e, 1852 w street
Louise Nance, colored, 81, 1861
Sumner road Sc. ..-
Lillian Andrews, 81, 3003 Seventh
street Sc.
John w. Burkert, 80, $40 Newcomb
street Sc.
Mabel A. Smith, "a, Old Fort
road Sc.
Genevleve M. Doherty, 81, 1874
Second street Sc.
Prentice F. Bacon, 81, 459 New
comb street Sc.
Five in Car Are Hurt.
Injured in the automobile wert
Williams, the driver, who incurred
cuts to the scalp, hands and face
and the following passengers:
James Muse, "a, 355 L street S.W.
possible skull fracture.
Miss Myrtle Hale, 26, Route 2
Vienna.
Watson Kingsborough, 50, I'LL
Howard road Sc.
Frank Gaskins, 26, Vienna.
Odessa Williams, 10, 124 Virginia
avenue S.W.
All were treated at Casualty Hos
pital and released except Mr.. Muse
The 19-year-old girl, Miss Theress
Stirling, 5706 Marlboro pike, Hillside
Md, was injured when an automo.
bile operated, police said, by Robert
F. Larson, 26, 1904 Vista street NE.
struck her and Myrle Corder, 81, o1
Arlington, who was only slightly
hurt.
Treated at Emergency Hospital.
Miss Stirling was treated for con.
cussion and neck injury at Emer.
gency Hospital. where she was taken
in a Fire Department ambulance
other ambulances being unavailable
because Of other injury calls.
Police charged Mr.. Larson with
failing to yield the right of way tx
pedestrians in the crosswalk.
James T. Yates, 81, colored, II:
Sixteenth Sc, was injured in 8
freak accident at Thirteenth and {
streets Sc. Police said Mr.. Yates
a pedestrian, was about to eros.
the street when a Capital Transit
bus and a truck collided.
The truck swerved with the fore,
Of the collision, the rear end strik.
ing Mr.. Yates who was treated fol
head cuts and bruises at Casualty
Hospital.
Truck Driver Slightly Injured.
The truck driver, Edward s. Jones
46, 1919 New Jersey avenue Sc.
who was only slightly hurt. Tn.
BUS was driven, police said, by Ken.
meth G. Longerbeam, q, 8l4 T
street NE.
Mrs. Bernice H. Jones, As, Route
2, Falls Church, Va, received posi-.
Bile internal injuries when an auto
mobile she was driving collided
with a bus at Thirty third and G
streets NV, hurting the car ovel
the sidewalk and into the porch of 9
house at 3215 @ street NV, knock
ing down lamp post on the way
Also injured in the accident were
Mrs. Jones son Edward, 6, and a
passenger, Mrs. Mabelle Franklin
80. Route 2, Falls Church.
The bus driver, police said, was
Edward Grifiths, jr., Is, Pill Eight
eenth street Sc.
Woman and Child Hit.
Mrs. Jessie Beales, SO, 4421 Fifth
street NV, incurred compound
fractures of the right leg and right
arm and chest injuries when, police
she was struck by an auto
mobile operated by Eldridge Morris
30, 1861 Irving street NV, in the
1900 block OF New Hampshire ave-
nue. NV.
Mrs. Beales is in serious condition
in Emergency Hospital.
Three-year-old Mary Reynolds
Alexandria, suffered a broken right
leg and Bessie Byrd, A, also OF
received cuts and bruises
yesterday when struck by an auto
mobile while standing in a safety
zone at Washington and Gibbon
streets, Alexandria.
The child was admitted to the
Alexandria Hospital and the woman
was released after treatment. Both
are colored.
Truck Driver Is Held.
Alexandria police said the two
were hit when the car attempted to
pass to the left of a truck which
had stopped for a turn into Gibbon
street.
The driver, listed by police as
George T. Carper, So, Gold Dale,
Va, was charged with reckless driv-
ing and operating a vehicle with
faulty brakes. He was released un-
der $3.50 bond pending a hearing to-
day in Alexandria Police Court.
In another accident, the driver
Of a trailer-truck escaped injury aft
er the vehicle struck a dump truck
parked on the Baltimore boulevard
at laurel Md and skiddei into the