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Show SIX HARROW ESCAPE DEATH III AUTO WRECK Complaint Issued Against William O'Brien Following Follow-ing Collision Between Cars on Thirteenth East Three men - and three women narrowly escaped death or eerloua Injury at 11:4a o'clock this morning morn-ing when the automobile driven by William Ooeeett, 111 South Third Eaat etreet. waa struck by a speeding speed-ing automobile aald to have been driven bv William O'Brien of Holll-day Holll-day at Thirteenth Eaat etreet and chine waa turned completely aver and all of tha occupants thrown to the pavement. Nona waa hurt seriously, seri-ously, however, according to tha report of tha accident received by pollra. - Tha occupants of Ooaeett'e ma-rhlne. ma-rhlne. In addition to himself, were Josephine Hall. Robert Crlchlon. Wlon Schram, Harry McCarty and May Keyeor. Ooeeett waa driving south on Thirteenth Eaat etreet and signaled a left turn Inta Gilmer drive when O'Brien, aald to bo driving at a rata of apeed between forty-five and fifty mllea an hour In tha same direction, steered his machine Into tha turning ear and knocked it over. Tha O'Brien machine la said to hava stopped only momentarily momen-tarily and then to hava speeded away from tha scene of tha accident. acci-dent. COMPLAINT ISSUED. Trafflo Sergeant 3. H. Warden swore to a complaint before Judas N. H. Tanner this morning charging charg-ing O'Brien with violation In two tnetances of traffic ordinances, thoee of speeding and failure ta report an accident la which persons per-sons were Injured. "Henceforth In- every automobile or traffic accident where Individual Individ-ual are hurt, regardleee of the extent ex-tent of the Injuries, driven will be summoned Into court," Sergeant Warden declared wheif Ooeeett and McCarty appeared at police headquartera head-quartera to make out a report of laat nighl'a accident and the sergeant ser-geant learned that O'Brien had failed ta coma to the atatlon promptly after tha accident or the first thing this morning. -The belief held by many drivers that they can fix things by agreeing agree-ing with the Injured partlee to pay all expenses and than try to keep tha Information from tha police will atop. After a few drlvera hava railed, aa they undoubtedly will In thla dt tempt, and ara given the severeet- penalty possible under traffic laws. I think autolsta will look upon aecldenta alightly different differ-ent thaa some ot them hava In the peat." Alex Forsberg, T4, of (1 I'pton place, employed by the etreet department, de-partment, waa tha victim of an automobile accident thle morning for the second time within the past three months. MAN KNOCKED DOWN. Forsberg waa knocked down by a machine driven by Ben Brewster, 41. of lit Regent street, at the Intersection In-tersection of Klret Boulh and Mala stroete. Ha Buffered an abrasion at the bark of hla head and euro eu-ro er on a body bruises. About three montha ago the man was knocked down by an automobile at Third South and Weet Temple atreetoand Injured alightly. The anachlne at that time speeded from the scons and Its Idsntlty remained a mystery. mys-tery. Brewster started to turn east Into Ftrat South street this morning, when another machine stopped suddenly sud-denly In front of him to allow a atreetcar, which was also turning eaat Into First - South street, to paaa. He aaw Forsberg too late to avoid hitting him. The Injured man waa picked up and taken to the emergency hoapltal. . |