Show T- T Truck Takes Life of Provo Boy In Gaze of Horrified Mother Telegram Leased Wire PROVO PROVO Death Death of ot a year three-year- old boy run over by a truck before before be be- fore tore the eyes of his horrified mother here Friday morning ended Provo city's record of ot consecutive consecutive consecutive con con- days without a traffic fatality Victim of ot the accident was Lloyd Remington son of Mr and Mrs Merland of East Third South street who died shortly shortly shortly short short- ly after being run over by a truck truckS S almost in front of the family's home The fatality raised the states state's traffic death toll this year to 88 against 70 to date last year an in increase increase increase in- in crease of approximately 25 per cent The death was the eighth in Utah county this year against 10 to date in 1939 a decrease of 20 per cent The child had been playing with Continued on Page Pace Three Column Three T IT Truck ruck Takes Life of Provo Boy In Gaze of Horrified Mother Continued from Page Pase One other children around a concrete mixer placed in the street at a anew anew anew new house being built just west of the Remington home and ran out into the street into the path of an eastbound truck driven by Curtis Curtis Curtis Cur Cur- Stevens R. R F. F D. D No 3 box 3 38 33 according to reports from the Provo police department Stevens who was hauling garbage garbage garbage gar gar- bage in a ton and a half truck drove into Third South street turning turning turning turn turn- ing east from Ninth East street he told officers He was going about 15 miles per hour and al although although although al- al though he turned out to the left to skirt th the concrete mixer he said he did not see the child as asit asit asit it ran out into the street Mrs Remington who had come out onto the porch of her home to give the children some cookies saw the accident but was unable to do anything to save her childs child's life lie The child was picked up by Sterling Moore a worker on the new house and was taken with Mrs Remington to the Provo medical building where the child died at 1153 a. a m. m a few minutes after the accident Dr Lloyd L. L Cullimore after whom the child had been named told police it suffered cerebral hemorrhage fracture fracture fracture frac frac- ture of the lower right arm and probable internal injuries The wheel of the truck passed over the childs child's chest police said No action against the driver of the truck was announced but Guy F. F Christensen chief of police said the death would be further gated He also said responsibility for placing or allowing the concrete concrete con con- crete mixer to be in the street would also be investigated as possible possible possible pos pos- sible contributing cause for the thc fatality Accompanying Mr Stevens in inthe inthe inthe the truck was Hal Johnson of East Fourth North street Last previous traffic death in Provo city occurred on January I 20 1940 when Thelma Wilson who was struck by a delivery truck in front of her home at East Third South on State Slate highway 91 died |