Julia Spring '67 and Allan Tobin, a Quincy House tutor in Biology, were seriously injured in an automobile accident near New York City on the New England Thruway before dawn Sunday morning.

The car, a 1966 TR-4, went out of control after having passed over a grate in the road and smashed into a pole. Both occupants were wearing seat-belts, and New York City Police said that this saved their lives.

Miss Spring was taken to the Misericordia Hospital in the Bronx in critical condition. The accident has left her paralyzed below the waist. Doctors operated to restore the nerves controlling her leg muscles, but they will not know how successful they were for another three or four weeks. At that time she will be moved to either the University Health Center or the Massachusetts General Hospital.

Tobin was first taken to the Misericordia Hospital and then transferred to Jacobi Hospital, also in the Bronx. His condition was diagnosed as severe internal bleeding.