Yetta Kaplan fatally wounds Hazel Roberts in a car accident
- Title of event
- Yetta Kaplan fatally wounds Hazel Roberts in a car accident
- Type of event
- Automobile crash
- Address of event
- Yetta Kaplan fatally wounds Hazel Roberts in a car accident Happened Primarily at W 128th St & Lenox Ave
- Report on event
- Yetta Kaplan fatally wounds Hazel Roberts in a car accident Main report referencing event Hazel Roberts against Yetta Kaplan
- Start date / time
- February 7, 1935
- February 7, 1935
- Start (general time of day)
- Day (Evening)
- Description
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While driving a motor vehicle north on Lenox Avenue
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While driving a motor vehicle north on Lenox Avenue – through a “safety zone” at the corner of West 122nd Street – the defendant [Kaplan], “through an act of culpable negligence, permitted the vehicle to strike … Hazel Roberts, throwing her to the pavement and inflicting … serious injuries which caused her death about four hours later in Harlem hospital.”