Milford chronicle., 1956-08-10
Accidents Claim
-Four LiUes In
Three Day Period
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Daughters See Accident

ScOCL, the browning VIcUlTn, failed
to make a curve just before the
bridge over the Christina, and
crashed through a guard rail into
six feet of water.
The youth attempted to swim
away from the car, witnesses re-
ported, but suddenly slipped out OF
sight before help reached him.
He was pronounced dead of
drowning at the Wilmington Gen
eral Hospital. With the assistance
of swimmer who attached chains.
the vehicle was pulled out of the
creek by wrecking cars.
Baker was riding in a car opera
ted by Thomas Headley, "A, of
Georgetown, which was involved
In a collision with an automobile
driven by Willie D. Wilkins, 54, of
Milford.
Baker suffered a fractured skull
and was pronounced dead at the
scene by DR.. Aubrey Smoot, deputy
medical examiner for Sussex Coun-
ty.
Both Wilkins and Headley were
also injured.
Three persons were injured in
an accident ON Route 13, three miles
north of Dover early last Sunday
morning. Betty Lou Shubrooks, 16,
of 1875 North New Street, Dover,
headed north, ran off the parkway
after skidding ON the wet road and
hit a utility pole. The impact
knocked the pole down, spreading
live wires on the highway. Traffic
was detoured for half an hour un-
til the wires were removed.
Miss Shubrooks suffered contu-
sions of the right side of the face.
Isaac Bishop, IL, of Wyoming, re-
ceived decorations and abrasions
of the forehead. and Betty Ann
Moor, 16, of 235 North New Street,
Dover, was taken to Kent General
Hospital in the Cheswold ambu-
lance, with possible brain con-
cussion.
In another accident near Dover
last Sunday ait 1:20 a. m., two per-
SONS were injured. A car operated
by William C. Nickerson, 21, of
near Hartly, sideswiped car driv-
en- by Clarence Fountain, "a, also
of near Hartly, on Route s, the
Dover-Hartly Road, just west of
Dover. State police said Nickerson
was over the center line, and will
be given a hearing before Magis-
trate George K. Shoekley ON a
charge of failing to yield half the
highway.
Eleanor Staats, II, of Camden,
a passenger in Nickerson's car, suf-
fered a possible chest injury, while
Julia E. Fountain, "a, in the other
car. had a jaw INJURY.
About 20 minutes later a car
driven by Lonee G. Carnry, "a, of
near Dover, going east on the same
road. ran into the rear of the dis
abled Fountain car. Carney was
arrested on a charge of failing to
use due care. There was no injury.
A driver was injured when his
car left the highway on Route 13,
a half mile east of Laurel last
Sunday at 2:30 a. m.
The operator, Donald r. Hudson,
20, of Delmar, Md, apparently fell
asleep while driving north. His car
veered to the Left and ran up on
the grass between the two sections
of the dual highway. After driving
490 feet on the grass he ran into
a guard rail at Laurel Pond. Hud-
son suffered fractured wrist and
decorations of the face. He will be
charged with reckless driving.
One man was injured in a head
on collision in the sOuth-bound
lame of Route 13 below Dover last
Sunday night. Marian Frank Ora
ham, passenger in a car operated
by Willie Cummings, both of Paho-
kee, Fla, suffered severe lacera-
tions of the scalp when the car,
moving north in the southbound
lane of the busy highway, collided
with one driven by Millard Taylor,
AZ, of Goldsboro, Md.
State police said Cummings is
charged with driving under the in
fiuence of alcohol and is being
held at the Kent County Correc-
tionai Institutions awaiting ar
raignment.
Graham was treated and releas-
ed at the Kent General Hospital.
Six persons from the Smyrna
area were badly injured early last
Sunday morning when their car on
Route 113 struck an abutment at
Haven Lake, Milford, went through
the guard rail, and plunged into
the lake.
Those in the car were: Odel Da-
Wis, who is believed to be the driv-
er, John H. Parker, Mrs. Paris
Jackson, Robert Kitchen, Mrs. Betty
Bralboy and Walter Reed.
The car was demolished. All six
were taken to the Milford Memorial
Hospital.
The car landed on a sandbar. A
passerbuy notified the Milford po-
lice, who started rescue operations.
Chief Robert Downes of the Mil
ford police, Pvt. Harvey Paven, and
Edward Kielbasa helped to pull the
victims out of the water.
The Milford police and the hos
pital ambulance carried them to the
hospital. They all suffered many
decorations and broken bones.