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DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA v. FRICK

Nos. 6008, 6009.

291 A.2d 83 (1972)

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, a Municipal Corporation, Appellant, v. Nancy L. FRICK and Greyhound Lines, Inc., Appellees. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, a Municipal Corporation, Appellant, v. GREYHOUND LINES, INC. and Allan Roy Lineberry, Appellees.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided May 26, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David P. Sutton, Asst. Corp. Counsel, with whom C. Francis Murphy, Corp. Counsel, and Richard W. Barton, Asst. Corp. Counsel, were on the brief, for appellant.

Harold A. Sakayan, Rockville, Md., with whom Vernon Haas, Oxon Hill, Md., was on the brief, for appellee Frick.

Austin F. Canfield, Jr., Washington, D. C., for appellee Greyhound Lines, Inc. Richard W. Galiher, Washington, D. C., also entered an appearance for appellee.

Before HOOD, Chief Judge, and FICKLING and KERN, Associate Judges.

FICKLING, Associate Judge:

These cases arise from a collision between a Metropolitan Police Department station wagon and a Greyhound bus. The principal question raised by appellant District of Columbia is whether the trial court committed reversible error in admitting evidence of numerous prior accidents involving police emergency vehicles. We answer this question in the affirmative and, therefore, we reverse.

Shortly before 7:30 a. m. on October 3, 1968,...

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