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Show ACCIDENT VICTIM ? DIES FROM HURTS Funeral services for Mrs. Inez Marie Johanson Lindblom, 29, were held Wednesday afternoon in the Twenty-fourth L.D.S. ward chapel, Salt Lake City. Interment was in the Wasatch Lawn buriaU-M, park. Mrs. Lindblom died SundaA morning of complications follow- ing injuries received Christmas! day when her leg was nearly! severed in an accident which oc- curred in the parking lot at 270 1 Main street. 1 She was assisting her husband, 1 Francis C. Lindblom of 126 Clin- I ton avenue, Salt Lake City, in 1 starting their car by pushing it I when her right leg was caught 1 between the running board of 1 their machine and the bumper of a car driven by Earl Abrams, 29, of Los Angeles. It was snowing and Mr. Abrams was backing his car and did not see the Lindbloms or their car. Mrs. Lindblom was rushed to the Bingham Canyon hospital but her condition became more serious, necessitating amputation amputa-tion of her leg Thursday. She suffered from shock and pneumonia pneu-monia which was followed hy acute nephritis. She was born in Stockholm, Sweden, February 21, 1910, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Einar-Johanson. Einar-Johanson. She came to United States ten years ago. She belong? ed to the L.D.S. chu?ch in which she was an active worker. Surviving are her husband; her father and stepmother, in Sweden; three brothers, Claus, Evert and Ellis Johanson of Sweden and Mrs. John Nilsson of Bingham; a sister, and an uncle, Carl Jensen of Farming-ton. Local and state officials are of the opinion that Mrs. Lindblom's death would not be classed as a traffic fatality as the injuries causing death followed an accident acci-dent occurring on private property. prop-erty. A member of the state tax commission, H. P. Leatham, said that the policy of the commission has been to rule deaths resulting result-ing from accident on private property as not traffic fatalities. If this accident is a non traffic-accident traffic-accident it will give Bingham a perfect record as far as traffic fatalities are concerned for 1939. This record is very good considering consid-ering the natural hazards we have in having narrow and winding streets. Now is a good time for residents and motorist in Bingham Bing-ham Canyon to start out to make to make 1940 another non-fatal traffic accident year. |