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Show Driver Charged With Murder LOGAN Second degree murder charges have been filed in Second Circuit Court in Logan against a driver of a vehicle whose auto smashed into another car killing a Clearfield, Clear-field, Davis County, woman and her 12-year-old son. KILLED IN the two-car smashup about 6V2 miles up Logan Canyon were Donna B. Box, 48,' and her son, Craig, both of Clearfield. Three other occupants of the Box auto were inured, one seriously. Charged in the deaths was Scott G. Carlson, 21 of Logan.. Two counts filed in circuit court here allege that Carlson acted under circumstances "which show evidence of depraved de-praved indifference to human life." THE DEFENDANT (Carlson) (Carl-son) had escaped from Logan Community Hospital only a short time before the fatal acci- dent. He had been in the hospital's hos-pital's psychiatric ward since the previous Saturday night . when he was slightly injured in another one-car accident up Logan Canyon. Carlson was not injured in the mishap with the Box auto but he fled the scene and hid in some nearby bushes for a few minutes before leaping in front Of a semi-trailer truck in an apparent suicide attempt, 'according to investigating . officers. . THE DEFENDANT is listed in "critical" condition at Logan Hospital. |