50,000th Case of the Year Reached in Traffic Court

The New York Times
December 29, 1922

The fifty thousandth traffic court case of the year came up yesterday morning before Magistrate W. Bruce Cobb.  The defendant, Saul Fimsmith of 139 Suffolk Street, was charged with failing to keep to the right at First Avenue and Sixty-fifth Street last Sunday.  He explained that his chauffeur was ill and he was driving his car for the first time, although he had a driver's license.  Sentence was suspended.

The 1922 list of traffic violations up to today is longer by about 4,500 than the list of violations for the same period of 1921.