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A PLAYFUL JILL BRADFORD splashed in her back yard pool last summer DdOre Sue WSS SuiCiveii mm enCciiuoiHu , li^igiiMTr. o »T... v» ^ v~ . «.^. .„..>... for on-going medical expenses this weekend when they sell refreshments at 2002 on Wheels , Sunrise Highway, Sayville. Tf ^Ti -\ii o vn 'l^/ ^ innnl r\* T*y - \»i£i tJ- i*i**o iro 1 1H 11 V UU C4&V, UVV^ lUVllL L/l W11V. , L1JVI I- C < A \- 11U intersections in Brookhaven Town you would do well to approach with caution. Thp Tra ffic Sa fety Division of the Suffolk County Department of Transportation recently issued a \High Accident Location Report\ which lists 612 such locations identified in the county during 1978. In determining what constitutes criteria for inclusion on this list , the department figures 10 accidents per yea r does it for western Suffolk , and five in the lesser traveled eastern Suffolk towns. Reporting on statistcs gathered from the j ^cii o I JIU , 11W 1 unci i CM o tnc iianiL uaicL^ Board lists the top five Brookhaven areas as: Patchogue-Porl Jefferson Road and Nesconset Hwy . with 48 accidents in 1978 , an increase of one over 1977. Nesconset Hwy . and Halloc k Road , 47 , up 11 over 1977. Nesconset Hwy. and Old Town Road , 41 , a decrease of seven from the previous J\\ ¦ Sunrise Hwy. and Waverl y Ave., 40 , a drop of 11 from 1977. Patchogue-Port Jefferson Roa d and Mt. Sinai-Patchogue Road with 38.an increase of six . In the local area , traffic accidents at the intersections of North Ocean Avenue and Sunrise Highway continue to mount. The report shows an increase of nine accidents , from 19 in 1977 to 28 in 1978. An increase of one accident-from 18 to 19--was shown for the intersection of Phyliss Drive for 1978. However , the Sunrise Highway-Medford Avenue intersection showed a dramatic drop in the number of accidents , from 51 in 1977 to 27 in 1 978 In the Mastic-Shirley area the in tersection at William Floyd Pkwy . an; Montauk Hwy. comes in 13th with 34 ac cidents . up more than 50 percent. One Patchogue Village intersection-- West Main Street and Railroad-Havens Avenue-showed a 600 percent jump. The number of accidents increased from two to 12. 4t T iitnt /-J^IB- I H lmj -vi»f i V\n nncuinr' * rnirt 1 JUOL \Jl\JLl U [\U\J YY L1H- - UHO »tV,l , OU1U Village Clerk David Berner. \Maybe peop le are just reporting more fender benders . I couldn 't reall y say until 1 had a chance to look at the reports \ The Patchogue area has seven other locations with six of them in Patchogue Village. Main St. and Ocean Ave., 16 , down two , Medford Ave. and East Main St., 15 , down ¦wu , nui ui ULCau _ Liaf\c oi. -vyars. ot., ±*t , u[- four ; South Ocean Ave. and Terr y St., 12 do w n three ; Medford Ave., and Oak St., 11 a decrease of three. Just outside of Patchogue Village. Sunrise Hwy, and Phyliss Drive accounted for 19 , an increase of one; and Montauk Hwy . and Ph v liss Drive 10 the same as 1977. Don Pagel , coun ty tra ffic engineer , explains , \Right of way is the major cause of accidents . \ At intersections where there is no signal , right-angle accidents are usually prevalent. AvQOC TlfV»i^»\n fiir<0 C»»*-»l-» on/»irlrtr»ff A/I/IHW k a. A VMO TV livi V- U»« - OUV11 UVV1UUIIO UV.V. UI are studied by the traffic department , analyzed and , if deemed necessary, nominated for signal installation . The two i r-*y- v*r**> mfArpA/ifi/\n n l-\ «-» * Trt r« * rt M r\ I r-> U KT\J V \< lllLVy l 0«~V. UVU J 11U V V- Ol gllUlD . The installation of a signal , however , said Pagel , is in itself a traffic hazard. Reports of right angle accidents change to rear \bumping \ accidents . Patcnogue Village Trustee and Police Commissioner John Ta bone listened to the recital of the six village locations of high accident incidence and explained that most of them were intersections where there was a 'jog. ' \On North Ocean and Oak Street we ' gentled' the corner but the jog is so severe the only real solution is tearing dow n buildings. \ And that, he continued , is not really much of a solution. \I wish our forefathers had squared off the streets , \ he said with a smile. Medford Avenu e , from that areas of Oak Street south to Main Street , has the n roblem of being a main arterv and also subject to added traffic generated by the (continued on page 27) BHk ^HH A^ K HH HI INJ KH flHtt MK IHI MflHflHk KWJ nC BwB HQ BK3 V E HBBB S HBI ESA C3 Cw3 nn DSD BS E753 ! ¦¦# CO ESQ BBr 'CB EM C*73 C7 luy USB I«AJ H^^— ES3 KJBL W^ S ^gy MB m WO\ pifl ^pr Wmm pBW BB| TP WO MSB ^ mr M PM ma pEj By ROBIN YOUNG ROE Jill Bradford , 3^2, toddles after her 15- month-old brother in her family ' s backyard. When the youngster , nicknamed \J.R. \ claps , so does Jill . Unlike most sibling relations where the older child teaches the younger one , Jill learn s from her brother. Today she is learning to do things she used to know how to do. It will be a year tomorrow since Jill Bradford awoke from a five-week coma , unable to move or talk. As she jauntily runs across the grassy yard in Medford , smiling and play ing with her brother, her mother , Mickey , can only describe the sight as a \ miracle. \ Jill was struck with encephalitis last July. The days since then have been lon<* , weary ones for Mickey and Russell Bradford. But , her mother said , \We won 't give up. \ They still make weekly tri ps to Wantagh for Jill' s physical therapy . And , when the family is at home , Jill is kept busy out-of- dnnrc mpvina all fha flmn Even though their spirit has not run dry, the Bradford' s finances have , she said. When she learned that the family medical insurance did not cover much-needed speech therapy for Jill , Mrs. Bradford , \ pallpH PVflrvnn o T r» r»nlr« fhinlr ~t \ — — .~-^v»« * , £ vOUiU lllllin \JL . The hel p they will get , however , came from neighbors who live just doors away. Maria Van Houten is the \ unofficial head of the \Baby Jill Fund\ that held one fund-raiser last summer for the sick child and will hol d another this weekend at 2002 On Wheels , Sunrise Highway, Sayville. Donors have given fund workers all the refreshments that they will sell at the skating rink. \The list of people who have Ul~i pl_U UUl 1J *~llV4H^OO , baiU ITJLiO. van Houten. They will sell refreshments from Friday, Aug. 24 , unti l Sunday at midnight and donate the funds for Jill' s medical ovnoncoc *—r —»-»-\¦ A special therapist helped Jill learn to walk again even when others said it wasn 't possible , Mrs. Bradford said. 'I wouldn ' t accept the fact that my child would use a wheelchair , \ she said. Now , Mrs. Bradford said , Jill needs intensive speech therapy to help her regain her lost skills . When it was deemed not a covered expense on the family ' s mpHicnl nlnn \Wo near) all nnr cotrinnc i« pay for what we could\ continuing the child' s three weekly visits costing $150 until \ we ran out of money. \ Hopefully, neighbors will be able to raise enough money to resume treatment , Mrs. Bradford said. Donations : \ or the Baby Jill Fund can be sent to P.O. Box 706 , Medford , N.Y. 11763. See story page 3A BM^ SB B B B B S S B S & ruTCuOQUB y &sS tBuuy sO uBCOsss G COssBQ B s ©WU See story page 2A e gg,-, ^^ n ~- ^L ST* m 5 tr=w B B B a B # B m^B f lP & l B<<y W5> ^SSk , 'Jft. *1Sb IIKfti /*¦»>. . Oft. S %. n n i^Sk. /tb *. Muau <tfte mm o™ mj KT /Oh /ass /<&> A ^*>wi it,i - i?i ^x^ JSL fianv _ ^»_ _ = _ ^^ ^_^ S — •—' - » - ^ --^—» m v w ^w w— ^^ <*+ »& <** m ^ mm^^t ^ ^ ^ i ««« B & B B B M& WW %+ ^^\ 4\%.
