[PRCo] ACCIDENT HUNTING A PLACE TO HAPPEN, FINDS TROLLEY.

[Fred Schneider]

THIS REMINDS ME OF THAT CROSLEY THAT RINGLING BROTHERS CIRCUS USED TO HAVE FROM WHICH ALL THOSE CLOWNS USED TO EMERGE.   I WANTED TO TITLE THIS ONE "ANOTHER DRIVER WHO COULND'T SEE THE BIG RED STREETCAR"  BUT THEN I BEGAN TO WONDER, WITH EIGHT PEOPLE PACKED INTO A CHEVY SEDAN (WITH THE SHIFT LEVER THE FLOOR), WAS IT EVEN POSSIBLE TO DRIVE IT AND STEER IT?  IF SEVEN OF THEM ARE TEENAGERS, COULD YOU EVEN HEAR THE STREETCAR?   ON A WINTER DAY, WOULD THE DEFROSTER KEEP THE WINDSHIELD FREE OF STEAM?  WHERE WERE THE PARENTS?   WAS TRUNZO COURTING ONE OF THE UNDERAGE LADIES?




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Pittsburgh Railways, Jan. 30, 1935, page 1

 

7 STUDENTS HURT AS AUTO HITS CAR

 

Collision Occurs as Group is En Route to School

 

Special to the Pittsburgh Press

MONONGAHELA, Pa., Jan. 30—Seven high school students and the driver of a Chevrolet sedan in which they were riding were injured today when the auto and a trolley car collided in the main street of New Eagle, near here.

   All of the students and the driver, James Trunzo, 23, of Gastonville, were brought to Monongahela Memoria Hospital, where three of them were treated and discharged.

   The most seriously hurt was John Townsend, 14, of Finleyville, who suffered a skull fracture.

   Beside Trunzo, who suffered a fractured nose, the others detained at the hospital were were Stella Holma, 15, of Gastonville; Isabell Jeannot, 16, of Finleyville, and Isabell Lekovich, 18, of Finleyville.   Those discharged were Angelo Romelo, 15, of Finleyviklle; Catherine Tropp, 17, of Finleyville, and Lewis Bartlett, 15, of Finleyville.