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Show 3 yum in HIGHWAY ACCIDENT Mapleton Youth Incurs In-curs Fractured Leg As Cars Collide. Clark Murry, 18, of Maple-ton, Maple-ton, is in a Spanish Fork hospital hos-pital with a broken and mangled right leg as the result re-sult of driving the borrowed car of Wilbie F. Warren of Mapleton into a truck driven by John Peterson, 18 of Lake Shore, at 12:30 a. m. Saturday. Bertha Chappie, 16, of Spanish Fork, Murray's companian, was severely bruised in the crash, and John Mardie, 18, of Benjamin, occupant oc-cupant of the truck", was lacerated about the head. Other occupants of the Ford car. Lloydi Haycock, 15, Benjamin, Clifford Clif-ford Hansen, 18, Benjamin, sustained, sus-tained, injuries. They were taken to the Hughes hospital. Tho npirlpnt hannpnpH nn the state highway one mile ,-souJ.h of Spanish Fork. Peterson and his companions in the truck were proceeding pro-ceeding south when they saw the Chevrolet coach driven by Murry coming around the curve at what they described1 as a reckless rate of speed. Peterson pulled the car he was driving over to the side of the road off the pavement, but was unable to get it out of the road of the oncoming on-coming Murry car, and the two smashed headlong. Both of the cars were badly broken up, according to J. P. Gourley, deputy sheriff, who investigated inves-tigated the accident along with Deputy Reuben Christenscn. , No arrests were made. |