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- Niagara Gazette - 8/13/1956
The toll of traffic fatalities
in this city and vicinity has
taken another upward bound
with the deaths of a Falls
woman in a two-car collision
here and of a North Tonawanda
man injured Thursday in a
Sanborn accident.
The latest victims were:
Mrs- Gloria .Mansu, 30, of 482
18th St.
Albert HID, 79, of 444 Bennett
St., North Tonawanda.
Injured but released after treatment
at Mt. St. Mary'. Hospital
was Mrs. Mansu's daughter, Linda
Marie, 7.
Mrs., Mansu's death Saturday
night raised the city's traffic fatality
toll to 12, compared to five recorded
last year at this date. The total
for 1955 was 10.
Th« Will death raised the toll
of auto deaths on county roads
outside the cities to 14, according
to the Niagara County Sheriffs
office. <
Thrown From Car.
Mrs. Mansu wax killed in an accident
at Jefferson and Sixth streets
when she was thrown from the
auto her husband, Nunzio Mansu,
29. was driving.
She suffered a broken neck and
was dead on arrival at Mt. St.
Mary's Hospital. Her daughter suffered
abrasions on both knees,
"nose and left wrist.
Police arrested the driver of the
other car, Miss Maxie L, Duehart,
41, of 2817 13th St., and charged
her with driving at a dangerous
speed.
At a hearing in Police Court
today, Miss Duehart pleaded not
guilty to the charge and was placed
on $500 bail. The case was ad-
^Journed until Sept. 5.
According to police, Miss Duehart
was traveling north in Sixth
street. The Mansu car was heading
east in Jefferson.
Says She Stopped
In a statement to police, Miss
Duehart said she stopped at a stop
sign at the intersection and then
proceeded to cross Jefferson. She
applied the brakes when she saw
Mrs. Mansu's car coming through
the intersection "at a high rate of
speed." she told police.
Miss Duehart stated she was driving
five to 10 miles an hour when
her machine struck the right rear
fender of the Mansu car.
A native of this city, Mrs. Mansu
was a waitress at the Como Restaurant.
In addition to her husband, she
is survived by her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Anthony Zito; a sister, Mrs.
Joseph Mariglio, and a brother,
Ronald Zito, all of this city.
Services will be held at 9 a.m.
Thursday at the Spallino Funeral
Home. A Solemn High Mass of
Requiem will be sung at 9:45 a.m.
at St. Joseph's Church. Burial will
be in St. Joseph's Cemetery.
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