Sewickley Herald

              The Herald
The Sewickley Valley’s Home News Weekly
Voi. 46 No. 30
SEWICKLEY, PENNA., THURSDAY, JULY 28, 1949
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Funeral Services For Accident Victim
High mass of requiem was celebrated by Father Peter Gross at St. Mary’s ¡¡oman Catholic Church, Glenfield, bn Saturday morning for Daniel F. Hawes, aged 60, of 222 Center Street, Glenfield, who was killed instantly at 4:45 p. m. Wednesday, July 20, when his new car was struck by a trailer-truck at the Osborne intersection of Beaver Road and the Ohio, River Boulevard. Interment was in St. Mary’s Cemetery. Previous to the service, friends were received at the Gray Funeral Home.
Born in Berwick, Pa., Mr. Hawes was a son of James and Elizabeth Smith Hawes. He spent his early life in Berwick and was employed as a tool maker for the Duff-Norton Company, North-side, for 19 years before becoming a tool maker for the Lewis Foundry and Machine Company of Coraopolis more than eight years ago.
A resident of Glenfield for 23 years, he was a member of St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Church. Fond of fishing, he was a member of the Coraopolis Sportsmen’s Club. He was also a member of the Glenfield Volunteer Fire Company.
Two years ago, he was taken ill and spent nearly a year at home and in hospitals, but had fully recovered from that long illness. In December, 1942, his son, John, was one of the 22 killed in the accident in which a rock-slide wrecked an Ohio River Motor Coach Company bus on the Ambridge-Aliquip-pa bridge,
Hr. Hawes is survived by his wife, Mrs. Helen Drummond Hawes; five daughters, Mrs. Paul Cottrell and Mrs. Albert Ree of Sewickley; Helen, Betty *d Joan, at home; a brother, George Hauze of Fairlawn, N. J., and four grandchildren,
Crowds of motorists and truckers stop-SJF,al 1116 scene created a traffic tie-up »eh was relieved only when Sewickley P ce went to the assistance of Chief f" Gardner of Osborne and the tow 5*7 removed the wrecked oars and “l^tor of toe truck. Quite a few
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Mt,ln70U'd be ^routed over die SSLh?sht track. Sewickley
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kondkf0? °rCOrnp?ted t0 post a $1’000
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Correspondence
(Editor’s Note;
Vali8G?l°rier residents of the
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July 21, 1949
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Trailer-Truck Overturned on Railroad Tracks After Fatal Accident

Photo by Howard ‘Bud’ James
A Pennsylvania Railroad crane car was required to lift back to the boulevard this heavy trailer truck, owned by the Wilson Freight Forwarding Company and driven by Paul C. Parson, 21, of Bairs Mills, Hunt County, after a three car accident Wednesday afternoon of last week at the Osborne intersection of Beaver Road and Hie Ohio River Boulevard. The chimney of the watchman’s shanty, which was bprely missed, can be seen protruding above the trailer, The driver, who especaped without a scratch, was released after posting a $1,000 bond.
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New Car In .Which Glenfield Man Met Death

Photo by Howard ‘Bud’ James
' The-wreckage of n new 1929 model car which Daniel F. Ilnwes aged 00, of 222 Center Street, was driving when itwassHuclf bv the trailer-truck, A granddaughter escaped poss hie death or injury, in the accident as he very when it was strucic ny_ im, tinu„i1(cr>s home in Sewickley. The entire front end ol the car was demolished by the
ernf when "the ruck^witneLcs said, "Just blew his horn and kept coming” instead of stopping for the traffic light at the 'intersection.' Another car, waiting for the light across the boulevard, was s.dcswipcd, causing $150 damage, by the cnrccning truck.
writing to you to present my further views on Hie serious highway problems resulting from Hie ever-increasing presence of these road behemoths.
Damage to roadways inflicted by heavy trucks can be repaired, the maimed, however, cannot purchase new limbs; nor can life be bought back by insurance settlements.
Yesterday, I came upon an accident at a traffic light crossing on the Ohio River Boulevard in Glen Osborne. A man in a small car had been killed. He had been decapitated in a collision with a heavy trailer truck. The truck obviously had been traveling at high speed, for it never would have overturned across the road if it had been observing the State law (as I understand it) of reducing truck speed to 25 miles per hour at a traffic light intersection. I understand the truck driver contended the light was not working. His contention is false, for not more than a few seconds after the truck had gone over on its side the light was in operation. My driving companions and I proceeded across the intersection while we had the light before stopping to observe Hie aftermath of another unnecessary slaughter on our highways.
As a resident of Sewickley, I drive to and from Pittsburgh on Hie Ohio River Boulevard five days a week. I have noted during the past four years not only a serious deterioration of the roadbed, obviously caused by the constant pounding of heavy trucks; I have also observed hundreds of trailer trucks, laboring up long grades, only to throw caution to the wind and roller-coast down hill in neutral gear. These trucks are then controlled only by questionable breaking systems. Who has not witnessed in recent years the wreckage of these monsters along our many highways?
Specifically, the wide concrete roadway which now stretches from Haysville to Ambridge is a veritable speedway for heavy trucks. At the traffic intersection, where yesterday’s slaughter occurred, I have noted on many occasions, trucks— and passenger cars—completely ignoring a red light. An honest observation would be that trailer trucks are the most consistent violators. The reason is possibly simple. These trucks are usually speed* ing and would take considerable braking to stop in a short distance. Moreover, Hiey are on time schedules between loading and delivery points, and must speed whenever an open stretch of road develops.
What can be done to make our highways safer despite the increasing number of heavy Vehicles? Are there not some reforms in our State traffic code of violations which can be undertaken? When a driver of a passenger car exceeds the State limits his license is usually suspended for 90 days. When he is apprehended for drunken driving he loses his license at least a year. I hold that a heavily loaded trailer truck is a much greater menace of life and property, especially when excessive speeds and disregard for traffic regulations would seem to be part of the truck driver’s code.
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Edgeworth Tennis Finals On Saturday
The finals of the Edgeworth Club Men’s Doubles Tennis Tournament will be played on Saturday, July 30th, at 3 p. m.