Randolph County AlArchives Obituaries.....Smith, Frances H.  March 4, 1946
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Roanoke Leader
Struck by an automobile which she apparently did not see, Frances Herrial Smith, 
10-year-old fourth grade student at Randolph County Training School, died before 
she could be carried to a hospital. The fatal accident occurred about 3:05 
Monday afternoon inside the city limits on the LaFayette highway near the First 
Baptist Church (colored). Frances and fifty or more other students were walking 
toward town from school, on their left side of the highway, according to highway 
safety rules. Before crossing the highway to go to her home on Oak Street, 
Frances started a game of tag with a playmate and probably became so interested 
in it that she failed to look for traffic as she started to cross the highway. 
She was struck by a Buick sedan driven by Captain William James, of Ft. 
McClellan, and traveling in the direction of LaFayette at what witnesses 
described as a high rate of speed. Captain James stopped and hurried back to 
town for medical aid, but the child was dead by the time an ambulance brought 
her to a local hospital. Death was the direct result of a fractured skull. 
Frances also appeared to have her left leg broken. Witnesses said that she was 
knocked several feet into the air and a considerable distance down the highway 
from the point where the car struck her. Captain James remained in Roanoke until 
after an investigation of the accident by the Alabama Highway Patrol.

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