Herald A Umtern»l2 August 1

‘A Miracle’

t-Vehicle Cra§h Saturday Night

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CAPE MAY - One car was'totaled and two others also had to be towed from the scene following a seven-vehicle accident in the most.congested area of this resort’s beachfront early Saturday night; incredibly no one was seriously injured. \ Six persons were transported to the hospital by the local rescue squad following the mishap, which began around 7:40 p m. when, according to police, a car driven by Donald K. Springmann, 29, of Bowie, Md., struck the first of,five vehicles. POLICE SAID Springmann attempted to flee after his vehitle, which was totaled, finally came to rest after successively striking five other vehicles in both lanes of traffic. The multiple-vehicle crash began at Perry St. and Beach Dr. and continued a full b)dck along Beach to Jackson St., where Springniann’s car finally stopped ' spinning, and the fifth vehicle he had struck was knocked into an unloaded bus. Even hours after the incredible smashup. thousands of tiny pieces

of windshield safety glass glistened along more tAan a block of the busy beachfront thoroughfare. SOT. RICHARD Coulter, the investigating officer, said afterward it was “absolutely a miracle' there were no more serious injuries that occurred. Everyone involved walked down from their crashed, vehicles, he said. Those taken to the hospital were checked out and released. According to the police sergeant, Springmann's car was the most severly damaged. Two ambulances and three wreckers werfr called to the scene. SPRINGMANN WAS

charged with reckless driving. operating- a motor vehicle undef the influence of alcohol and leaving the accident scene. Police said the Springmann vehicle y^as proceeding cast on .Beach Dr. when it hit the first vehicle, : which was attempting a right turn off Beach onto Perry. The initial and successive impact put Springman's vehicle, which Sgt. Coulter said was reportedly traveling al a “pretty good clip," into a variety of spinning motions until by the time it hit the fifth vehicle, his car was spinning completely around in the street.

THE FIFTH vehicle struck, wflich like the second had to be towed from the scene', 1hen carcdncd into a Gateway to the Stars bus belonging to the Chris tian JJeacon Press. ^ No pedestrians or bystanders were injured. Another unusual aspect of the mishap - which occur-, red within sight of hundreds of people — was* (Hat all seven of the vehicles involved in the Mock-long accident were being operated at the time, In the accident area, vehicles were also parted along both sides up the street hut none were struck.

$33,000 Project To Improve Parking Lot

A typographical error in last week's paper gave the wrong date for this Sunday's 267th anniversary of the Old irick Church. Cold Spring; it’s 11 a.m. August 16. •—V • • • A typographical error last/week, drppped a sentence from the story on the dew commander of the Coast Guard Electronicsr Engineering Center, Cpt. William Hayes; it should have read that: He has also served as XO of the cutter Alert, home ported in Cape May. He and his wife, the former Joan Franz of Pacific Grove, Calif., and two daughters are making their home...

COLD SPRING - Reconstruction and surfacing work are underway on parts of the parking area at the Consolidated School. At a special meeting last Wednesday) the Lower Director At Con fab WILDWCoD - David G. Quinlan Jr., director of United Way's First Call For Help, was among 250 participants at the annual AIRS conference held in June at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel in Boston, Mass. The theme for the conference was "Impacts Of the National Budget Cuts on I & R and How to Cope". The keynote panel presented at the J.F. Kennedy Memorial Library discussed viewing Information and Referral (I & R) from several perspectives of government and public policy. First cajl for Help links clients with the service support they need when they havee problem which they can Vnot solve. For social service information and help, \all 729-2255 (729-CALL). x

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Township Elementary School Board awarded Ver saggi Brothers Constriction Co. of Wildwood a $30,400 contract to coflU-^ plete the project. According to superintendent Ed Campbell, this price doesn't include curbing — an additional item that will cost about $2,000 "The total job will cost about $33,000,'' he said. THE PROJECT calls for resurfacing of driveways and areas of the parking lot that haven't had a perm a- - nent surfacing for a number of years. Funding is thru the capital outlay

portion of the district's budget, and the work is expected to be completed before school opens next month In other business, the Board approved appoint ments of four new district staff members Those hired include two elMnentary school teachers at a salary of $12,800 each, a compensatory education teacher at $14,500 and a compensatory education aide at $6.66 per hr for hrsreach day. The salaries of the two compensatory education staffers are provided thru >tate funding.

ItIKHON CUTTING marks Opening of Marine National Bank's Stone Harbor offiee as Mayors James \\ immI of Stone Harbor and Kllsuorth Xrinaeost of Xviilon join Robert llafcle, assistant vice president and offiee manager, for ceremony. ,

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