Driving Lesson Ends in Crash With Trolley

Nov. 28, 1909, Accidents

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Wilhardt Street and Main, the general area of the first accident between a streetcar and an auto.

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Main and Alameda, the general area of the second accident – and only a block from Philippe!

Nov. 28, 1909: Fred Weber was showing his son Carl, 14, how to drive on their return from an outing to Pasadena when their auto collided with the Downey Avenue streetcar near Wilhardt Street and East Main Street.  (The Times says the accident occurred at Wilhardt and San Fernando, but I’m not able to locate that intersection on any of my maps). The seven people in the car were thrown to the street, and three of them were injured seriously, The Times said.

In another accident, an auto carrying four men hits the Eastlake car at Naud Junction (the general area across Alameda Street from Philippe). The driver was tossed through windshield, hit the streetcar and was thrown back into the auto, The Times says. 

Dave Trayler, an African American whom The Times called "the unluckiest Negro in Los Angeles, dies in a strange accident at 7th Street and Santa Fe Avenue. Trayler was driving a wagon loaded with dirt when it hit a "rough spot in the street." He was thrown to the ground and crushed by the wheels.

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