Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1955-06-14
Second Youth Killed On Big
PIain-CircIeviIIe Road
High Speed Cause
OF Fatal Crash

Donald c. Blosser, II years of
age, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Merle
Blosser, 90 South Laurel ST., Lon
don, was killed early Sunday
morning when the car which he
was driving crashed into a tree
on the Big Plain-C -Circleville Road
nine miles south of London. The
accident occurred at the same spot
where a teen-age girl was killed
on May %. Acting coroner DR.. Err
nest Crouch said the boy died of
head injuries.
Two passengers in the car were
also injured. They were Ralph A.
Jones, 20, and his brother, Ronald
E, II, of London. Both boys are
in Mt Carmel Hospital, Columbus,
with fractures of the left leg.
The State Highway Patrol
blamed excessive speed for the ac-
cident. Reports state that the death
car was following another car,
which was heard taking the curve
at high rate of speed. The first
car made it and went on.
In addition TO his parents, DON
aid is survived by a sister, Mrs.
Nina Mae Mayes, and brother,
William, both of London. Funeral
services will be held at 2:30 pm.
Tuesday in the Schlechty-F Fichner
Funeral Home. Friends may call
there from 2 to 5 and from Z to 9
Monday. Interment will be in Kirk
wood Cemetery.
Five other accidents kept the
State Patrol busy over the week
end. At noon, Friday, James R.
Jones, %, Route l, London, lost
control of his car on a curve z
and 3/10ths miles south of Lon
don on Route Sc, spun around in
the road and struck a car driven
by Kelly Picklesimer, go, of Route
A, London. Jones was thrown from
his car and suffered a sprained
tail bone and head bump. Susar
Louise Jones, 6, suffered bumI
on the head. They were taken tc
DR.. Crouch's office by passing
motoriSt.
At 8 p. m. Friday, on US. Route
40, just west of West Jefferson
Howard f. Evans, Is, of 49,
Hubbard Rd., Galloway, escaped
injury as his car blew a left real
tire, struck the road divider, roll.
ed over and came to rest on it:
wheels.
At five p. m. Friday, at the
cloverleaf intersection, an auto
driven by Millard Vredenburg, SO
of Wichita, Kansas, slowed while
passing the truck scales and wa:
struck in the rear by an auto driv'
en- by Ethel Lena Dorm, 67, Route
2, London. Mrs. Dorm was arrested
for reckless operation and was fin
ed SO and costs in Mayors court
London.
At 7:30 pm. Friday, sixteenth:
of mile west of West Jefferson
on the Taylor-Blair Road, an auto
driven by CharlessF. Piar, %, 24(
Merriman Drive, West jefferson
ran into the rear end of an auto
driven by Franklin d. Marcum
81, of Plain City. Piar was arrested
for reckless operation and M
drivers license. He was fined S2s
and costs on each charge in May
or's court, West Jefferson.
At p. m. Sunday, on U. 8
Route AZ, three and fourteenth.
miles north of London, an auto
driven by John T. Bernard, 53
1924 Woodstock Drive, Dayton
and a patrol car driven by RALPH
L. Sanders, 25, of 2412 Maple st.
London, collided around the cen
ter line of the highway. Mrs. Elsie
Bernard received decorations of tht
left elbow, a fractured bone in thu
eft foot and a bruised left should
er. Mrs. Bernard was taken to Mt
Carmel Hospitol in the Rader-Por
ter ambulance, where she wa
treated and released. The Bernard
car was extensively damaged. Th'
accident is still undergoing investi
cation.
On Saturday, at lilo pm, g.
miles west of West jefferson OF
u. S. 40, Raenen Witbeck, "a, Ri
A, London, going south on Town
ship Street in Lafayette, crossed
the national highway and ran int
a car in the east-bound lane driver
by Owen B. March of Mt. Holly
N. J. Miss Witbeck was fined ST.
and costs for failure to yield tn
right-of-way, and Mr. March wa
fined $40 and cost for insufficien
brakes in the Mayors court, Yves
Jefferson.
On Monday at 5 pm. an aut'
driven by Hattie Pearl Rippy, sc
of Caddo, Oklahoma, was strucl
in the rear by an auto driven b,
Henry Jenkins, As, of Columbus
as the Rippy auto attempted lef
turn. Barbara Joan Phillips II, @
419 Middle Drive, West Jefferson
passenger in the Rippy auto, wa
taken to the hospital with broke
collar bone. Jenkins was fined ST
and costs in Mayors court, Wes
Jefferson, for reckless operation.
Eight people riding in a static