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Three one-car accidents over the weekend and a two-car mis hap this morning added up to almost $1,500 damages and per sonal injury to one person, City Police reported today. A Pittsburgh man received scalp lacerations and was charged with two road law vio lations following an $800 one car accident early Sunday morn ing on East Brockway Avenue. Carl B. Robey, operator of a “62 Corvair, lost control of his vehicle and crashed into a tele phone pole according to the City Police report. Robey was later cited by the investigating offi cers with failure to keep his vehicle under control and leav ing the scene of an accident, Treated, Released He was treated for scalp lac erations at Vincent Pallotti Hos pital and released. Failure to keep his vehicle under control was also charged against Lloyd B. Nicholson of Route 3 Saturday night when the '56 Ford he was operating plunged into Oak Grove Ceme tery damaging several tomb stones. Total damages were es timated at $125. Brakes Fail A third one-car mishap over the weekend was attributed to brake failure. The accident hap pened on Campus Drive when a ‘57 Chevrolet driven by San dra Geiger of Charleston stop ped for a traffic light. The brakes failed and the auto drifted back wards into the stadium causing approximately $300 damages. Two hundred dollars damages were estimated in a two-car ac cident early this morning at the intersection of University Ave nue and Kirk Street. Involved were a ‘61 Volkswagen and a ’% Dodge driven by Kenneth Smith of Route 3, and a ‘5S6 Dodge operated by Frances R. Julian of 540 Elmira St. Girl Injured Richard M. Smith Jr., 17, Bridgeport, Harrison County, was killed near Morgantown when his motorcycle collided head-on with a small bus driv en by Delbert Shaver, 44, of Fairmont. Shaver was not in jured. A passenger on the motorcy cle, Susan Reppert, 19, also of Bridgeport, suffered leg and foot injuries and was admitted to West Virginia University Hos pital, Tot Killed Sherry Jean Daniels, two-year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Maynard H. Daniels, Rt. 1. Bev erly, was fatally injured when her father’s pickup truck plunged over an embankment on Sec. 33 near Elkins. The tot ap parently suffocated when she was pinned under her mother in the crash, Miss Reppert, 19, was in “good’’ condition this morning at St. Vincent Pallotti Hospital following the collision in which her boyfriend was killed. Miss Reppert, of Bridgeport was treated for severe leg and foot injuries and internal injur ies and is still a patient at the hospital. State Police and Sheriff Clar ence E. Johnson said Smith was trying to pass two other motor cycles on W. Va. Route 73 near the Halleck Road intersection when his cycle collided head on with a bus. On the two other cycles were friends of the dead boy who had accompanied him for the day. The Smith cycle was at the rear of the column and had be gun to pass the other two when it collided with the small bus, driven by Delbert Shaver, 44, of Fairmont. The bus was owned by B. B. A. Taxi Company of Barrackville. There were no injuries nor were there any charges pre ferred.
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Morgantown Post
Morgantown, West Virginia, US
Mon, Jun 15, 1964
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