Students dodge careening car
Daily Kansan Friday, April 21, 1967
By RUE CHAGOLL
Bob Ehrlich, Hutchinson senior, flirted with disaster shortly after 1:20 p.m. yesterday afternoon when the brakes in his car failed at the top of the hill where Naismith Drive and Crescent Rd. intersect.
Student pedestrians and drivers alike dodged the path of the car as it sped to its final resting place in N-zone parking lot just north of Allen Field House.
Neither Ehrlich nor his passenger, Mary Kim Buckley, Atchison junior, who were enroute to class when the mishap occurred, were injured. In spite of heavy pedestrian and automobile traffic, the only damage was to trees and shrubs struck by Ehrlich in hopes of slowing his car.
"There were kids coming and going everywhere along Naismith because classes had just been let out.
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"I HAD NOTICED the brakes were a little sluggish earlier, but didn't think anything of it," Ehrlich said.
"I was scared, to say the least," he said.
EHRLICH'S CAR ROLLED past the stop sign at Naismith and 15th St. and swerved into the oncoming lane to avoid a slower automobile.
"They looked plenty shook up," he said of the girls.
Ehrlich was forced to drive on the sidewalk to avoid hitting four girls crossing the street, all the time his car gaining momentum as it rolled downhill.
He missed, only by inches, a sports car driven by Steve Schu yler. Overland Park junior which was travelling north on Naismith about opposite Murphy Hall.
Ehrlich swerved back into the downtown lane hoping to make the turn into Irving Hill Road.
"I really didn't know which way to go then," he said, "but saw some traffic ahead on Naismith and wanted to avoid them."
The car was going too fast to make the sharp turn and hopped the curb at Irving Hill Road, blowing out the left front tire and snapping a small tree.
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With the blowout, Ehrlich said, he lost most steering control but managed to avoid parked cars in N-zone and finally came to an abrupt halt when the car struck a tree and some bushes at the south end of the lot near Allen Field House.
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