SPEEDING DRIVER, OVERTURNED CAR (1931)
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The guilty one was evident.
The accident was seen by at least 40 trolley riders, several automobile drivers, and a number of pedestrians, on Bergen Street near Bedford Avenue.
It was around 8 p.m. on A Friday. A laundry truck had been motoring east on Bergen Street when its chauffeur, possibly eager for the weekend, attempted to pass a trolley car ahead of him that was going (too slow, likely for the chauffeur) in the same direction.
As the laundry truck cleared this trolley car, however, its chauffeur became suddenly aware of a westbound trolley car bearing down on him in his direction.
There was no time or space to change direction of the automobile and the two vehicles collided at a relatively high rate of speed. The force of the collision threw the truck into the path of the eastbound trolley that the chauffeur had just tried to pass, which also ended up striking the laundry truck, itself.
It was unknown whether the laundry truck chauffeur was injured as he didn’t stick around long enough, fleeing the scene, according to the police, about as soon as his truck had found its final resting place.
According to the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, nine passengers on the two Bergen Street trolley cars were injured, and about 40 others were “shaken up in the incident.
“The injured,” the paper noted, “went home after treatment by ambulance physicians from the Brooklyn Jewish Hospital (Classon Ave. & Prospect Pl.) and the Swedish Hospital (Bedford Ave. & Dean St).”
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