Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-12-17 | Page 17 | Injured Woman Left in Path of Oncoming Auto

INJURED WOMAN LEFT IN P PATH ATH OF ONCOMING AUTO Second Accident Is Averted Run Hit-Run Driver Sought Struck truck by a run hit driver and left lying ying In n the street where she was waa almost run over by another automobile automobile automobile auto auto- mobile Mrs Betty Scott 27 Vest West Fourth North street w was seriously seri serf Injured Wednesday night A A. E. E Eitner 29 Ameri American n avenue who took Mrs Scott to the emergency hospital said he noticed d what appeared to be papers lying in n the intersection at Fourth North r and Second Vest West streets He then saw it was wu a woman and slammed on his brakes just in time tima timeto to keep from running over her Two witnesses told police they saw a car ear preceding Mr Eitner's Either's north on Second West Vest street strike Mrs Scott about p p. m m. as u she he was running for a street treet car Describe Machine The witnesses W W. J J. J Haight North Second West street and Dl Dick k Peterson 3 30 0 North Main street could not obtain the license number but the former sold said the run hit-run machine machine machine ma ma- chine appeared to be an Oldsmobile 1935 model and was wu a coupe or roadster Mrs Scott was wu reported recoverIng recovering recovering recover recover- ing at Holy Cross hospital from a fractured leg brain concussion and nd bruises S Police PoUce found no marks on oat the street or other clu clues s. s S Three other other- persons persons erson were injured d dand and one motorist was arrested on reckless driving charges as a res result lt of accidents Wednesday night S Boy Is Hurt Suffering from a possible skull fracture and severe lacerations of the tongue face and scalp Charles 10 10 son of Mr and Mrs Orson No 2 Ireta court was in a poor condition Thursday in n the Salt Lake general hospital The youth was injured when struck by a car operated by Veryl VerylE E E. Doty 18 18 2 S North Fifth West street as he crossed the intersection intersection intersection tion at North Temple and nd Thirl Thir West streets on oa his bicycle A second pedestrian n Mrs E. E Boettcher 68 of North Eleventh West sl street t was waS waS' t treated at lA th the emergency emergency hospital for A severe cuton cut dut duton ut uton on the right hand nand and bruises when she ass walked into the pathway pathway pathway path path- way of an automobile driven by R. R C. C Watkins Jr 41 41 of 1535 Harvard Harvard Har Hat vard yard avenue The accident occurred at Second West and Second North streets Driver Arrested Arrest Jailed on reckless driving charges E E. R. R Mowrey 25 of East Broadway Broad Broad- way was wu arrested early Thursday after the car he was driving assert assert- edly crashed into a parked car at Broadway and Tenth West streets Eddie Dundas 7 of 1619 Kensington Kensing Kensing- ton avenue suffered a severe scalp laceration and cuts and bruises when a machine driven east on First South street by his father R. R W. W Dundas 30 collided with a vehicle being driven out of ot an alley at East First South street Jack Sud- Sud weeks 18 of 1968 Thirteenth East street driver of the other car was wu booked at the police station on charges of driving without an operators operator's operators operator's operators operator's oper oper- ator's license and failing to yield the right of way S The Dundas Dundes youth was was treated at atthe at the emergency hospital