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Show Driver Kilied In Wreck Near La Sal Creek Highway Patrol Trooper Melvin Schiffman investigated investigat-ed the third traffic fatality of the year in the Moab area cn Wednesday about 7 miles east of LaSal on Route 47. The accident took the life of Moab resident John Wesley Newman, New-man, Jr., 33. Apparently the accident oc curred about lo p.m. Tuesday,, Tues-day,, although it was not discovered dis-covered until Wednesday morning mor-ning when a brother of the victim passed the wreck. The 1954 Chevrolet pickup which Newman was driving apparently appar-ently went off the left hand side of the road and then the driver overcorrected and the vehicle went off the right side of the roadway. Newman was thrown from the vehicle and apparently the truck rolled over his body. Newman was brought to Allen Memorial Hospital by Green ambulance and wai pronounced dead on arrival. |