CAMPUS AND AREA
University Daily Kansan, August 27, 1984
Page 12
Washington police say driver was drunk
By United Press International
WASHINGTON -- A man whose car plowed into a crowded bus stop this weekend, killing a family of five and two others outside the Washington Navy Yard, had been drinking and was on his way from a wedding reception to return the car to his brother, police say.
The driver, Robert Williams. 41.
Washington, was charged with seven
counts of vehicular homicide, driving
under the influence of alcohol and reckless driving in Saturday's accident, police said.
dent, power stroke.
Four people died at the scene and two others died later that evening. The death toll rose to seven yesterday when another victim, an 18-year-old woman, died.
Police said Williams' car was speeding down the wrong side of M Street Southeast at about 6:15 p.m. when it struck the median strip and jumped onto the sidewalk that runs beside the wall of the Navy Yard, a
one car traveled about 120 feet along the sidewalk before it plowed into nine people waiting at a bus stop, and burst into flames, police said.
waterfront base about eight blocks from the Capitol.
Seven people, including four children, died in the accident. Three others, including Williams, were hospitalized.
"This is the worst accident I can recall in recent memory," city police spokesman Joseph Gentile said at a
news conference yesterday
The victims, trapped between the road and the 7-foot-high brick Navy Yard wall, could not flee the car barreling toward them. Some were wounded in the attack. All were pinned against a light pole, a fire department spokesman said.
Williams "was coming from a wedding reception, had dropped his mother off ... and was heading to the southeast area of the city to return the car, which was his brother's." Detective Dean Jacobson said.
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