Show 7 What's What's Your J Pet Peeve 0 G The Tue ret Iet I Iee ee column 1 l ther the r readers readers' ad rs' rs Op open D forum All Mi opinion except attacks on r religions or of a II scurrilous nature are welcomed d. d liames iames most mast be siren given as an Indica Indication tion of or Rood good faith but will rot not he be used If request is 18 made to withhold hem I Letters Letter he be written on one tide side of ti the sheet only and limited to nords Yori I. I SPEEDING DEATH CAR Editor The Telegram Early last Sunday morning Herman Herman Herman Her Her- man Hahn a resident of Rangely Colo Cob was killed k In an automobile accident a hundred yards east of the Twelve mile bridge west of Vernal and Jay Rector his is In the Vernal hospital suffering from a fractured skull and other in in- in juries It Is unfortunate that one man was killed and another severely injured r ini It is also unfortunate that misleading misleading misleading mis mis- leading information concerning the circumstances surrounding the cause of the fatal ac accident has gained circulation When the Injured in injured injured In- In man Jay Rector was brought to Vernal for medical examination the undersigned made inquiry of the young man who brought Mr l Rector to this city When asked if the car occupied by the dead man and his companion was running fast the reply was When that car passed me a short distance west of the Twelve-mile Twelve bridge It was going very ery fast fast all all the car would give When hen asked about the condition of the road th reply was The accident occurred on the graveled portion of the Victory highway and the road was not slick from any rains Later about two 1 hours when Sheriff Sherif Johnson brought i in the body of or the unfortunate unfortunate unfortunate nate man who was killed the same statement about the condition of 01 the road was made The night marshal marshal marshal mar mar- of Vernal Adam Erickson who accompanied the sheriff also stated the road load was In good normal shape On Sunday morning Several persons persons per pet sons from Vernal went to the scene of the accident and two of these persons told the undersigned that th the tracks of the death car showed that for some forty feet It ran at least fifteen feet to one side of the solid graveled right of or way of the Victory Victor highway this forty feet being on the rim of or the gulch and that then the car wheels struck arock a n. arock rock and the machine tumbled down into intI the gulch The body of ot the dead man was found about fifteen fit nf- teen feet teet from the car The man inas I who first saw the body aft after r the accident is the same man who brought the Injured Mr Rector Hector to Vernal When Then asked how he lie came cameto to notice th the wreck wl-eck on the dark night he stated The car pass passed d L me at high speed a short distance west of the bridge when I crossed L the bridge and had gone about yards I noticed a light down in the gulch stopped climbed down an and I found round the dead mn man and the Injured injured in In- In man This evening when called on the t telephone Mr rr George L. L Goodrich str state te ro road id agent for tor Uintah county the county In which the accident occurred answering a query quer stated Today I measured the width of ot the graveled portion of the Victory highway where the accident occurred and it Is III six twenty feet teet wide There Is no loose gravel grave there and a a. rationally driven car has no trouble rem remaining on th the highway and the road rond is not in a dangerous condition on either side of or the I bridge It is in to a tJ normal condition not slick from recent rains and nd was not slick early Sun day morning Mr 11 Goodrich stated that the tracks Of the death car cartere were tere still plain to be seen Tuesday and that these tracks track were a considerable con Con- distance off the right of way of or th the highway y Mr Godrich Is emphatic In stating that there there- Is no loose gravel travel on the highway at that point and that none was th there re early Sunday morning The undersigned signed went over this part of or orthe the Victory highway less than two w weeks eks ago agoo hd at that time directly after th vicious storm had ceased that p of the road wa was In normal norma dit c-dit diton on 1011 it Jt true that the state road |