7 DEAD, 7 INJURED IN AUTO ACCIDENTS |
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The New York Times
November 19, 1922
Child in Baby Cart Coasts in Front of Car—Old Man Run Down.
FOUR DIE IN NEAR-BY TOWNS
Two at Point Pleasant, Two Near Egg Harbor—Dobbs Ferry Woman Dying.
Seven were killed and seven injured in automobile accidents yesterday in New York City and nearby communities. Three were killed and two injured in the city, four were killed and two injured in Jersey and three were injured in Westchester County.
Pauline Sackalowsky, 4 years old, of 322 Thatford Avenue, Brooklyn, was coasting in a baby carriage down an incline on a vacant lot at Thatford and Livonia Avenues, Brooklyn, when she rolled into the street directly in the path of an automobile owned and driven by Charles Viot, 465 Bedford Avenue. Viot said he was unable to stop his car. The baby carriage and its small passenger were crushed by the motor car. The child was rushed to St. Mary's hospital by Viot in his machine, but when they got there it was found the child was beyond medical assistance.
John McClellan, 80, of Covert Street, Brooklyn, died in Bushwick Hospital after having been struck by the automobile of Henry G. Zuercher, 536 Hart Street, Brooklyn. When arraigned before Magistrate Liota in Gates Avenue Court, Zuercher was held in $2,500 bail for further examination on Nov. 21.
Andrew J. Driscoll, 22, of 14 Walnut Street, Great Neck, L. I., was killed early yesterday morning when an automobile driven by him was in collision on Fulton Street, at Glenada Place, Brooklyn, with a truck of the Ward Baking Company. Driscoll's car overturned and crushed the driver to death. The car was lent to Driscoll by John Maynard. George Roman was driver of the truck.
Motorcycle Policeman Patrick Tuohy, of 259 Warren Street, attached to the Fourth Avenue Station, Brooklyn, and Patrolman John J. Ward, of the same precinct, who lives at 537 St. John's Place, were struck and injured, not dangerously, early yesterday morning by an Essex touring car, for whose driver the police are now looking.
Tuohy was riding his motorcycle along Seventh Avenue when the touring car tried to pass and sideswiped him. Tuohy's cycle was bowled over and he was thrown to the pavement. Tuohy's shouts attracted Patrolman Ward, on duty at Seventh Avenue and Forty-fifth Street. When Ward tried to stop the automobile he was knocked down by the motor car.
The police are looking also for a large touring car that shot down Third Avenue in the Bronx at 60 miles an hour, according to witnesses. The touring car passed a northbound Police Department automobile, swerved from side to side of the street and finally began to slow up as it mounted the sidewalk at 167th Street, where it crashed into the plate glass window of Curt Findeisen's Bakery, 3,721 Third Avenue. It quickly backed out of the show window and sped south on Third Avenue, leaving a trail of blood behind it.