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PAGE EIGHTTHREE ACCIDENTS MAR WEEKEND TRAFFI4 Sailors Injured In Cras On New Bedford Road^00 Damage Done 3n 3-Car Smash in Portsmouth; Auto^ Hits'Tiverton FenceThree accidents, one of whic: resulted in serious injury to fouNewport-based sailors, marre the relatively light weekend trat 2 c record in this area.The sailore came to grief on th Fall River-New Bedford rofti early Sunday morning when the I car went through the marquee o a drive-in movie. They were takej ;o St. Luke’s Hospital in Fal River and transferred later to thi Naval Hospital here.Several hundred dollars damage was done Sunday afternoor on the Exist Main road, Ports mouth when three cars piled uj ncxir a gas station, and a Fal River auto ploughed into a stretcl of roadside fence In Tiverton.Injured in the New Bedforc road crash were George Herd on 20, the driver, who suffered fi broken nose, internal injuries ant lacerations of the face; Charles S. Haynes, 22. lacerations of the forehead. chest injuries' ann shock; Jack R, Morris, 22, lacerations of the chin, forehead, right leg. left eye and a broken nose? and Delbert H. Buddeimeyer, 20. lacerations of the face, nose and right knee. All are stationed uboard the Melville based U. S. SZ, Yo somite.Massachusetts state trooperssaid that Herdon was driving west at 1:15 when his car went out of control at an Intersection 10 miles east of Fall River. The automobile left the road and smashed through the marquee of the Dartmouth drive-in movie theatre. The car was badly damaged,‘3 Can* In Crackup In the Portsmouth accident, the car driven by William Hall of Sprague stAcet, Portsmouth, was struck by two automobiles as he made a • left turn across th-i road into a gasoline station.Operating a car headed south in the opposite direction was Harry C. Anderson. 30, of the r.ay» which struck the Hall car ax it made the turn. Another vehicle, proceeding north behind Hall and driven by Kuchien La-Fleur of 28 Ellen street, New Bedford, also struck the Hall car, state police reported.Damage was estimated at S-500 to the three cars. Violet Hall, riding with William Hall, was brought to Newport ■ Hospital for an ankle injury.State police also reported ans.ccident early Sunday afternoon when a man lost control of hisautomobile on the Soakonnet Point road Tiverton and ran into a fence.Edmund Michael. 37, of Harbor terrace. Fall River, washeaded north, state police said, when his car skidded about a mile north of Tiverton Four Corners, went off the left sideof the road and hit a fence.Damage was cstjmuted at $*15.
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Newport Mercury and Weekly News
Newport, Rhode Island, US
Fri, Jul 21, 1950
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