HIGHWAY TRAGEDIES
TRAGED-
IESMishap
Mishap
Claims One
Every day w
we are exposed toto
he cold statistics of tragedy 40
the
he
000 people lost their lives on thethe
la t year 3
nations highways last
345000 were injured in automoautomo
iles and
nd every year the figuresbiles
figures
increasencreasencrease
increase
But statistics never seem toto
carry much meaning until thethe
number becomes a name and thethe
name recalls a friend For RiceRice
University
Jniversity statistics were sudJniversity
sud ¬
ondenly brought to life when on
1063 David E GrienerMay 26 1963
Griener
1963
was added to the list of 1963raffio fatalities
fatalitiestraffic
raffio
FINALS WERE over andDave
DaveFINAIS
Dave
andDaveand
were
Greiner and Mike Derkacz werePjttsPjtts
driving to their home in PittsPitts
am
mrg Pennsylvania At 920 amburg
Clarks
May 26 six miles west of ClarksMay
79
ville Tennessee on highway 79passingan impatient driver was passing
re ¬
on a hill The headon collision reMaryMary
Mrs
sulted in ddeMh
th for
death
andWilker n and Dave Greiner and
Wilkerspn
Der
critical injuries for Mike Derweeks
kacz
tacz Mike spent several weeksfully
in the hospital
hospitl and now fullyRice
recovered is attending Ricewas overover
Though the
th worst NJas
Rice students were still to faceface
Rice
Itragedy
Aug ¬
ragedy on the highway On Augtragedy
ragedy
Carol
ust 18 Bill Timme and CarolHoustonSpaw were returning to Houston
after ¬
after a pleasant Sunday afterthey
noon at Lake Travis As theypulled into La Grange a farmer
farmerthe
drove onto the highway from therightleft Bill swerved to the right
left
the
col ision but thetrying to avoid a collision
offoncoming farmer forced Bill off
the road into a culvert
CA OL was seriously injuredCAROL
injured
conc ssion andreceiving aa brain concussion
and
remaining unconscioug
several
unconscious for severalunconsciou
hours She spent a week in thethe
hospital but is now completelyhopital
tely
CompletelyCompletely
compl telyrecovered Bill escaped with onlyonly
minor injuries but his car waswas
completely demolished Because
Becausethere was no contact made withwith
re ¬
Bill has yet to rethe farmer DiU
ceive
a settlement