Evening star., 1949-09-05
D. +. Area Free
of Traffic Deaths
Over Week End
Fatalities Reach
Il in Virginia
And Maryland


And Maryland
The Washington area was free
from traffic deaths or serious ac-
cidents as the Labor Day week
end went into its third day but
Virginia and Maryland reported a
total of 81 fatalities.
Sixteen of the deaths were re-
corded in Virginia-a toll topped
only by Michigan, where Is died.
according to an Associated Press
tally.
Five of the deaths occurred in
a single crash at Norfolk Two
other crashes listed District area
residents as the victims. The two
State total included two persons
killed in Virginia Friday night.
The District reported AZ acci-
dents in which q persons were
hurt. none seriously An Alex
andria man was injured Saturday
night on Route l and was said
to be in fair condition today at
Hospital.
Boy, 4, Is Killed.
The Metropolitan area victims
were 4-year-old Martin Webber.
son of Sergt. and Mrs. Leroy
Webber of Boiling Field. and Ar
mond w. Langley, jr., 20, of SOL
Pershing drive. Silver Spring.
The Webber child died yester-
day in Q Winchester hospital four
hours after he fell from the rear
door of his fathers car near the
Virginia town. His father said the
child apparently bumped against
the door or accidentally unlatched
it. The boy suffered skull frac-
ture.
Mr.. Langley was struck by Q
car on Route so near Ocean City.
Md. early Saturday and died in
a hospital at Salisbury about an
hour later Mr.. Langley, son of
an official of the Capitol Radio
Engineering Institute here, was
vacationing at Ocean City. His.
death was caused by a skull frac-
ture.
Chase Leads to Crash.
The Norfolk accident occurred
when a car being chased by a
police cruiser crashed head-on at
80 miles per hour into another
automobile standing on the high
way.
State Trooper r. c. Wilkerson,
who witnessed the accident on
Military Road where it overpasses
Virginia Beach boulevard, said:
When the cars collided they
both went into the air Is or 80
feet"
He described it as lone of the
worst accidents" he had ever seen.
Police listed the dead as:
Charles A. Jameson. 80, chief
gunners mate on the USS Missis-
sippi. a native of Hopkinsville. KY.
Mrs. Virginia Lucille Jameson.
80, his wife, a. Norfolk resident.
Miss Dorothy M. Ledbetter, 80.
of st. Louis. Mo-. all three occu-
pants of the standing car.
Essex Brinkley, jr., 81, colored,
of Norfolk.
Emma Lee Bell 81, colored, Of
Norfolk.
Injured was Oscar A. Dees, chief
gunners mate, who was in the car
with the JameSonS.
Roadblock Requested.
Norfolk County Policeman J. s.
Leonard said he was alone in a
police radio cruiser when a new
car containing the two colored
persons ran through a red light.
He started chasing them and when
he came abreast of the car. he said
Brinkley tried to run him off the
road. He called Norfolk County
Police headquarters by radio and
asked for a roadblock.
Mr.. Leonard said that as the
car, he was chasing approached a
roadblock on the overpass he was
clocking Brinkley as doing 80 miles
an hour. He was several hundred
yards behind. The police had
stopped traffic.
Brinkley, Mr.. Leonard said, tried
to get around parked police cars,
went into a left lane, and struck
the car with the Jamesons headon.
In a two-car crash on West
Main street in Waynesboro. Va.
Frances Virginia Atchison. 20, of
Weyers Cave. Va, was killed.
Two Children Killed.
Two children died in separate
accidents Saturday. They were
identified by police as Shelby Dene
Hensley, 10, Route l, Elkton. Va.
victim of a car-bicycle crash. and
Barry Mylonbachetti. 5. Front
Royal, Va, who fell of an ice
truck.
The Alexandria man who was
hurt was James E. Humphrey, 43,
of the 800 block of North Henry
street. He suffered a broken
shoulder and leg and cuts and
bruises when a car in which he
was a passenger crashed with a
tractor trailer.
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