Water From Union Causes Auto Acciden

Water flowing away from the burning Union turned to ice on Massachusetts Avenue yesterday. As a result, a Square-bound M.T.A. bus skidded 30 feet, plowed into four cars, and crashed through the plate glass window of a packed University Restaurant and Luncheonette. Miraculously, no one was more than slightly injured.

Yesterday was Safe Driving Day in Massachusetts.

Student spectators were just leaving the Union fire at 1:30 p.m. as James A. Sanderson, driving his empty bus back to the Square to reload, his a patch of ice in front of Plympton St. Sanderson was only traveling at five miles per hour, but, he later recalled, "I just touched the brake and boy, did she go!"

The bus crashed into the borrowed Pontiac driven by Paul L. Kelley of Belmont, which had stopped short. It also hit a parked Pontiac occupied by Mrs. Marguerite LaRaia, 58, and her daughter, Marguerite II, 26, who both escaped serious injury. Two other parked cars, a Pontiac and a Ford, also were entangled as the bus careened straight for the University Luncheonette.

Inside the restaurant Mrs. Patricia Chaprales, wife of the owner, was sitting at the cashier's desk with her back to the window. The flying glass did not injure her, but the buckling wall behind her did slightly. Ivan A. Hirsch 3L and Nancy Howes 3L, sitting at a table with their backs also to the window, were both shaken up, but escaped any injury.